Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

10.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

12.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

13.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

16.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

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

Winters, Shelley

19.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

20.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

21.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

22.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

23.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

25.

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

Rita Rudner

26.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

27.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

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

29.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

31.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

33.

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

Moliere

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

38.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

39.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

41.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

42.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

43.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

44.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

45.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

47.

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

48.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

49.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Eliot, George