Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mae West

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

10.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

11.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

12.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

13.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

14.

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

17.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

18.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

19.

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

20.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

21.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

22.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

23.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

26.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

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

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

Prior, Matthew

30.

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

31.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

32.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

33.

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

34.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

35.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

36.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

39.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

46.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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