Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Mae West

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

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

13.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

14.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

15.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

17.

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

Thomason, Pauline

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Andre Maurois

24.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

25.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

26.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

27.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

28.

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

29.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Elizabeth I

32.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

33.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

36.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

37.

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

Vries, Peter De

38.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

40.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

41.

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

42.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

43.

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

44.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

45.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

46.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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.