Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Novalis

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

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

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Alexander, Shana

10.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

11.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

12.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

13.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

14.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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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

16.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

19.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

20.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

24.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Spencer, Herbert

31.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

32.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

34.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

36.

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

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

39.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

40.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

41.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Elizabeth I

45.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

48.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La