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

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

Peter Blake

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Bennett, Jill

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

13.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

15.

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

16.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

17.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

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

Bundy, Peg

19.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

20.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

21.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

23.

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

24.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

25.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

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

28.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

29.

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

Rieux, Madame De

30.

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

31.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

32.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

33.

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

34.

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

Murray, Joe

35.

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.

36.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

37.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

38.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

39.

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

Coward, Noel

40.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

41.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

42.

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

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

48.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

49.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

50.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De