Motivational Quotes

Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Kauffman, Max

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

10.

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

Victoria, Queen

11.

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

Alexander, Shana

12.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

13.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

14.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

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

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

Lennon, John

17.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

20.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

22.

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

Farquhar, George

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

32.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

34.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Will Rogers

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

43.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

45.

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

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

49.

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

50.

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

Cosby, Bill