Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dupuy, Alexis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Proverb

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Congreve, William

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

Knowles, F. M.

11.

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

12.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

13.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

Clarke, W. A.

16.

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

17.

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

Rita Rudner

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

21.

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

Winters, Shelley

22.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

Byron, Lord

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

27.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

30.

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

Mae West

31.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

32.

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

33.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

34.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

Vries, Peter De

36.

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

Mead, Margaret

37.

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

Rieux, Madame De

38.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

39.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

40.

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

Mickey Rooney

41.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

42.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Diller, Phyllis

47.

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

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

49.

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

Young, Brigham

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.