Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Congreve, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dupuy, Alexis

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

William Shakespeare

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

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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

12.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

15.

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

Spencer, Herbert

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

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

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

20.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

22.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

23.

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

Elizabeth I

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

28.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

29.

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

30.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

31.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

32.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

33.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

37.

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.

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

Rudner, Rita

39.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

40.

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

Nick Faldo

41.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

42.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

44.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

45.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus