Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

- Fox, Michael J.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Bible

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

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

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

Mae West

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Ford, Richard

14.

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

Clarke, W. A.

15.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

16.

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

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

23.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

24.

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

Rieux, Madame De

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Farquhar, George

30.

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

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

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

Harrison, Jane

35.

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

36.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

37.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

38.

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

39.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

40.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

41.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

43.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

45.

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

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

Young, Brigham

47.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

48.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

49.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

50.

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.