Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Marriage

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Proverb

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Will Rogers

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

11.

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

12.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

13.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

14.

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

Kauffman, Max

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

17.

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

18.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

27.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

28.

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

Peter Blake

29.

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

30.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

31.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

33.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

36.

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

37.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

38.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

40.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

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

Baskins

42.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

43.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

44.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

45.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

46.

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

47.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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