Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hitopadesa

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

Ruckett

10.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

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

Maurois, Andre

15.

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

Congreve, William

16.

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

Kathleen Norris

17.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

18.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

19.

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

Thomason, Pauline

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

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

22.

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

Smalley, Gary

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Landers, Ann

26.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

27.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

28.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

35.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

36.

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

Kinison, Sam

37.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

38.

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

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

40.

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

Mae West

41.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

45.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

46.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

48.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

49.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Key, Ellen