Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Billings, Josh

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Eucharista Ward

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Rudner, Rita

10.

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

Nick Faldo

11.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

12.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

13.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

14.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

21.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

22.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

23.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

24.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

25.

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

Mickey Rooney

26.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

27.

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

Myers, Cecil

28.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

29.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

31.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

Hull, Raymond

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

45.

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Lawana Blackwell

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