Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

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

Winters, Shelley

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Luther, Martin

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

10.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

14.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

15.

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

Sunday, Billy

16.

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

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

20.

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

Will Rogers

21.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

22.

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

Rudner, Rita

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

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

25.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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.

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

Andre Maurois

31.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Clarke, W. A.

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

37.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

39.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

42.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

43.

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

Bennett, Jill

44.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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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

48.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

49.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

50.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod