Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Lawana Blackwell

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Jong, Erica

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Hitopadesa

11.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

12.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

13.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

14.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

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

16.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

17.

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

18.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

19.

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

20.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

21.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

23.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

24.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

25.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

26.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

27.

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.

28.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

29.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

30.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

31.

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

Rooney, Mickey

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

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

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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

35.

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

36.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

37.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

38.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

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

40.

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

Vries, Peter De

41.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

43.

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

44.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

45.

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

Knowles, F. M.

46.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

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

Murray, Joe

49.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

50.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De