Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

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

Baskins

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

11.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

16.

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

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

19.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

21.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

22.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

23.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

26.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

28.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

29.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

31.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

32.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

33.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

34.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

36.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

37.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

38.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

39.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

40.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

41.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

42.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

43.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

44.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

45.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

46.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

48.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

49.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

50.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora