Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carson, Johnny

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

10.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

11.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

12.

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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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

15.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

16.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

17.

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

Rudner, Rita

18.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

19.

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

Samuel, Herbert

20.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

22.

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

Harrison, Jane

24.

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

26.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

28.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

29.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

33.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

34.

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

Coward, Noel

35.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Rita Rudner

37.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

38.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

39.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

40.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

42.

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

43.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

44.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

46.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Elizabeth I