Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Proverb, German

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

Skelton, Red

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Myers, Cecil

11.

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

Ruckett

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

14.

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

Moliere

15.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

16.

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

Rieux, Madame De

17.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

18.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

22.

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

23.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

25.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

30.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

32.

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

Graham, James

33.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

34.

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

35.

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

Knowles, F. M.

36.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

37.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Mae West

40.

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

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

43.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

44.

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

Pancoast, Mal

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

47.

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

48.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

49.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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