Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Spencer, Herbert

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

11.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

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

13.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

14.

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

Bible

15.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

16.

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

17.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

18.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

20.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

22.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

23.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

24.

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

25.

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

Wilder, Thornton

26.

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

27.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

30.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

33.

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

34.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

35.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

36.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

37.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

38.

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

39.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

42.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

43.

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

Rita Rudner

44.

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

45.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

46.

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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

48.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

49.

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

50.

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

Grizzard, Lewis