Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Bush, Barbara

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

10.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

11.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

Andre Maurois

14.

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

Hull, Raymond

15.

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.

16.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

20.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

23.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

26.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

28.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

29.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

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

32.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

33.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Novalis

36.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

37.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

38.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

41.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

42.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

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

44.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

45.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

46.

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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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

49.

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

50.

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