Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bible

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

Bennett, Jill

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Penn, William

10.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

12.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

13.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

14.

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

Marx, Groucho

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

17.

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

Novalis

18.

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

Clarke, W. A.

19.

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

Knowles, F. M.

20.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

21.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

24.

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

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

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.

27.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

28.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Balzac, Honore De

30.

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

Myers, Cecil

31.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

32.

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

33.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

34.

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

Rieux, Madame De

35.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

39.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

44.

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

45.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

46.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

47.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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