Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

Harrison, Jane

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Hitopadesa

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Penn, William

10.

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

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

12.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

13.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

18.

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

Hull, Raymond

19.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

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

Wilson, Earl

21.

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

Rooney, Mickey

22.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

23.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

24.

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

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

Heine, Heinrich

26.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

32.

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

Nick Faldo

33.

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

34.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

35.

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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

37.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

Winters, Shelley

39.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Cosby, Bill

42.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

43.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

44.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

47.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

Kauffman, Max