Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

- Candice Bergen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Elizabeth I

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

Moliere

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Clarke, W. A.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb

10.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

11.

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

12.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

13.

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

Proverb, German

14.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

Myers, Cecil

21.

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

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

23.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

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

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

Knowles, F. M.

26.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

28.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

29.

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

30.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

38.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

39.

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

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

41.

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

42.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

45.

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

Luther, Martin

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Skelton, Red

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose