Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

11.

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

Nick Faldo

12.

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

13.

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

Landers, Ann

14.

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

Alexander, Shana

15.

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

16.

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

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

19.

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

Irving, Washington

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hitopadesa

24.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

28.

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

29.

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

Novalis

30.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

31.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

32.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

33.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

34.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

35.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

36.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

37.

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

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

40.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

41.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

44.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

45.

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

46.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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