Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Bible

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

Mae West

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Eliot, George

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

10.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

12.

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

Penn, William

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

15.

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

16.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

21.

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

22.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

26.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Novalis

28.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

29.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

30.

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

31.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

32.

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

Rooney, Mickey

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

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

Hitopadesa

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

37.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

38.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

39.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

41.

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

Rudner, Rita

42.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

43.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

44.

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

Vass, Susan

45.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

46.

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

Kathleen Norris

47.

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

48.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

49.

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

Luther, Martin

50.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John