Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Byron, Lord

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

13.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

14.

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

15.

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

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

17.

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

Harrison, Jane

18.

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

19.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

20.

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

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Eucharista Ward

24.

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

25.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

30.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

31.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

32.

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

36.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

39.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

40.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

41.

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

42.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

43.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

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

46.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

48.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

49.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

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