Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

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

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

Hull, Raymond

11.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

12.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

14.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

15.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

18.

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

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

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

Nick Faldo

21.

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

Rieux, Madame De

22.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

24.

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

Rooney, Mickey

25.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Murray, Joe

30.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

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

32.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

35.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

36.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

41.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

42.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

43.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

44.

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

Spencer, Herbert

45.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

46.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

47.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

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

Hitopadesa

49.

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

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

Helen Rowland