Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

10.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

11.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

12.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

14.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

15.

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

Updike, John

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

21.

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

22.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

23.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

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

Mickey Rooney

25.

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

Murray, Joe

26.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

27.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

28.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

29.

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

30.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

35.

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

36.

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

Graham, James

37.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

38.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

39.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

40.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

43.

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

44.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

46.

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

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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