Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Coward, Noel

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Novalis

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

10.

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

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

13.

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

14.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

15.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

16.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

17.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

18.

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

Hull, Raymond

19.

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

20.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

21.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

22.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

24.

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

25.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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.

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

28.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

31.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

34.

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

Mickey Rooney

35.

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

36.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

37.

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.

38.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

39.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Vass, Susan

45.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

46.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

48.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

49.

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

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.