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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Hitopadesa

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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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.

12.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

13.

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

Coward, Noel

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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Rowland, Helen

24.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

28.

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

Ruckett

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Mae West

32.

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

Myers, Cecil

33.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Elizabeth I

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

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

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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