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

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Mae West

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

13.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

17.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

19.

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

20.

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

Rita Rudner

21.

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

Eucharista Ward

22.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

23.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

24.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

26.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

27.

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

28.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

30.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

32.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

Winters, Shelley

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Helen Rowland

39.

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

Harrison, Jane

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

43.

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

44.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lennon, John

48.

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

Mickey Rooney

49.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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