Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Andre Maurois

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Jong, Erica

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

13.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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

15.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

16.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

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

22.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

23.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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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

26.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

28.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

29.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

30.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

31.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

Rieux, Madame De

34.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

35.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

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

41.

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

Graham, James

42.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

44.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

45.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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