Motivational Quotes

Marriage

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

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

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

10.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

Miller, Harlan

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

17.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

18.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

19.

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

20.

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

Bennett, Jill

21.

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

22.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

24.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

27.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

34.

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

36.

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.

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

Elizabeth I

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

41.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

45.

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

46.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth