Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Murray, Joe

10.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

11.

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

12.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

13.

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

14.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

18.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Graham, James

20.

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

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

22.

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

Eucharista Ward

23.

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

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

Ford, Richard

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

Rudner, Rita

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Bennett, Jill

29.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

30.

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

Elizabeth I

31.

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

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Duncan, Isadora

34.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

35.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

36.

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

37.

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

Myers, Cecil

38.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

39.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

42.

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

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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

44.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

47.

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