Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Blake

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Halen

10.

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

11.

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

Congreve, William

12.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

13.

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

Irving, Washington

14.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

16.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

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

Knowles, F. M.

22.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

23.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

24.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

26.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

27.

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

Bush, Barbara

28.

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

Harrison, Jane

29.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

30.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

31.

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

32.

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

33.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

36.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

37.

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

Vass, Susan

38.

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

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.