Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

- Nelms, Cynthia

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Nick Faldo

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Bundy, Peg

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

10.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

11.

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

12.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

17.

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

18.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Cosby, Bill

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

23.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

24.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

26.

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

27.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

28.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

34.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

36.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

37.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

38.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

39.

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

Proverb, Scottish

40.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

41.

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

Lennon, John

42.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

43.

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

Harrison, Jane

44.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

48.

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

Rooney, Mickey

49.

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

50.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot