Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

11.

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

12.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

Knowles, F. M.

14.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

15.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

16.

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

Skelton, Red

17.

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

Heine, Heinrich

18.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Scottish

21.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

22.

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

Myers, Cecil

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

26.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

31.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

32.

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

33.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

34.

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

35.

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

Hesiod

36.

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.

37.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

39.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

41.

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

Miller, Harlan

42.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

43.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

45.

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

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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.

48.

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