Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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.

Landers, Ann

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

11.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

12.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

14.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Bible

18.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

19.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

20.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

22.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

24.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

25.

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

Key, Ellen

26.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Baskins

31.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

33.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

34.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

37.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

Skelton, Red

42.

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

43.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

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

Peter Blake

47.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

48.

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

49.

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

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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