Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Ford, Richard

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Peter Blake

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

12.

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

13.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

22.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

28.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

Chopin, Daniel

30.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

33.

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

Hull, Raymond

34.

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

35.

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

Halen

36.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

37.

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

Proverb

38.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

39.

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

Kauffman, Max

40.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

41.

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

Congreve, William

42.

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

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Elizabeth I

45.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

46.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

47.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

48.

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

49.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

50.

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