Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ford, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fuller, Thomas

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

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

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

13.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

14.

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

Coward, Noel

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

17.

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

Vass, Susan

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

33.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

34.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Connolly, Cyril

36.

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

37.

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

Knowles, F. M.

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

40.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

41.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

42.

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

43.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Rita Rudner

47.

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

Maurois, Andre

48.

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

Kauffman, Max

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