Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

10.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

12.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

15.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

16.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

17.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

18.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

19.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

22.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

23.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

24.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

26.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

27.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

28.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

29.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

30.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

31.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

32.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

33.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

34.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

35.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

37.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

38.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

39.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

40.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

41.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

42.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

43.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

44.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

45.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

46.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

47.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

48.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

50.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner