Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Byron, Lord

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

10.

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

Key, Ellen

11.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

15.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

16.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

17.

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.

18.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

19.

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

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.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

23.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

24.

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

Myers, Cecil

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

27.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

29.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

30.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

31.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

38.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

39.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

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

43.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

44.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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