Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Ford, Richard

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

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

Cosby, Bill

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

11.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

12.

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

13.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

14.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

15.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

16.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

17.

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

Barrymore, John

18.

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

Rooney, Mickey

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

22.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

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

25.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

26.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

32.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

33.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

35.

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

Lennon, John

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

39.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

40.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

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

43.

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

Young, Brigham

44.

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

45.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

47.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.