Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marx, Groucho

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Rooney, Mickey

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

15.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

16.

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

Harrison, Jane

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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

18.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

19.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

20.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

25.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

26.

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

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

Rita Rudner

30.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Myers, Cecil

33.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

34.

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

35.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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

37.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

39.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

42.

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

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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

44.

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

Diller, Phyllis

45.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

46.

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

Young, Brigham

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.