Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Penn, William

10.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

11.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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.

15.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

16.

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

17.

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

Victoria, Queen

18.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

20.

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

21.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

23.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

24.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

25.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

26.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

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

29.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

30.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

31.

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

Winters, Shelley

32.

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

Rooney, Mickey

33.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

34.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

35.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

36.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

39.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

40.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

41.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

43.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

44.

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

45.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

46.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

48.

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

Lennon, John

49.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

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