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

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

Rowland, Helen

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Proverb, Spanish

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

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

Ruckett

14.

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

Marx, Groucho

15.

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

Baskins

16.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

17.

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

Myers, Cecil

18.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

19.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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

25.

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

28.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

30.

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

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

34.

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

Rieux, Madame De

35.

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

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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 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

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

39.

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

Cosby, Bill

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

43.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.