Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Congreve, William

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

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

Young, Brigham

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

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

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

Byron, Lord

13.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

14.

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

15.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

16.

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

17.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

22.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

23.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

24.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

25.

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

Hull, Raymond

26.

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

Bundy, Peg

27.

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

Baskins

28.

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

Ford, Richard

29.

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

Alexander, Shana

30.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

31.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Diller, Phyllis

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Coward, Noel

45.

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

46.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

47.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.