Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

16.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

Murray, Joe

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

21.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

22.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

23.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

24.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

25.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

26.

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

Lennon, John

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

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

Nick Faldo

29.

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

30.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

31.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

32.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

41.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

43.

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

Coward, Noel

44.

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

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

47.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Marriage is the sunset of love.