Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

- Alexander, Shana

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Novalis

10.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Chopin, Daniel

12.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

13.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

14.

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

15.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Connolly, Cyril

23.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

24.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

26.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

28.

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

29.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

33.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

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

36.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

37.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

38.

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

Eliot, George

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

43.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

44.

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

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

47.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

48.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

49.

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

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis