Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Hull, Raymond

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

10.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Skelton, Red

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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

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

16.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

21.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

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

23.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

24.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

25.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

26.

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

27.

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

Helen Rowland

28.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

31.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

32.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

Chopin, Daniel

36.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

38.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

39.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Connolly, Cyril

45.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

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

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peter Blake