Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about 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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

10.

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

Winters, Shelley

11.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

14.

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

15.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Congreve, William

18.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Samuel, Herbert

20.

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

22.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

25.

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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

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

Ford, Richard

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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

30.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

33.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

36.

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

37.

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

38.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

40.

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

41.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Farquhar, George

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

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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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Novalis

48.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

49.

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

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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