Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kinison, Sam

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Mickey Rooney

10.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Smalley, Gary

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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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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

20.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

21.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

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

26.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

29.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

30.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

31.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

36.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

37.

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

Chopin, Daniel

38.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

39.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

41.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

43.

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

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

49.

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

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