Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Winters, Shelley

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Lawana Blackwell

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Myers, Cecil

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

16.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

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

Mickey Rooney

20.

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

21.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

24.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

25.

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

Harrison, Jane

26.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

27.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

28.

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

Novalis

29.

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

30.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

33.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

34.

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

35.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

36.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

37.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

40.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

41.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

42.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

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

Rita Rudner

45.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

46.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

47.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

48.

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

49.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

50.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De