Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Rita Rudner

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Miller, Harlan

10.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

11.

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

Irving, Washington

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

16.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

17.

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

18.

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

Helen Rowland

19.

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

20.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

21.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

26.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

27.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

32.

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

Wilder, Thornton

33.

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

Elizabeth I

34.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

35.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

36.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

37.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

38.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

39.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

42.

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

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

44.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

45.

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

46.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

47.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

48.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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