Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baskins

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

10.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

11.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

12.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

13.

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

14.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

20.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

21.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

Rieux, Madame De

27.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

28.

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

Rooney, Mickey

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

31.

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

32.

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

Mae West

33.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

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

Kauffman, Max

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

Duncan, Isadora

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

Elizabeth I

46.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

47.

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

Harrison, Jane

48.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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.

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

Irving, Washington