Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Penn, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Key, Ellen

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

10.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

14.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Samuel, Herbert

19.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

22.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

24.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

25.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Graham, James

28.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

31.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

32.

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

Elizabeth I

33.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

36.

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

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Rooney, Mickey

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

41.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

42.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

44.

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

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

48.

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

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie