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

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

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Vries, Peter De

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

10.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

11.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

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

Nick Faldo

14.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

16.

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

17.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

20.

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

Peter Blake

21.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

22.

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.

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Murray, Joe

27.

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

Young, Brigham

28.

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

29.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

32.

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

Bundy, Peg

33.

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

Proverb, German

34.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

35.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

36.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Rita Rudner

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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.

48.

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

Smith, Sydney

49.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

50.

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