Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Chopin, Daniel

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mae West

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

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

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

13.

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

Thomason, Pauline

14.

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

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

17.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

18.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

23.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

27.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Harrison, Jane

30.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

33.

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

34.

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

Mickey Rooney

35.

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

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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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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

38.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

40.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

41.

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

Spencer, Herbert

42.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

43.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Rita Rudner

46.

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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.