Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pancoast, Mal

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Proverb, German

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

13.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Elizabeth I

19.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

22.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

24.

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

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

26.

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

Novalis

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

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

Key, Ellen

29.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Wycherley, William

31.

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

Updike, John

32.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

33.

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

Kauffman, Max

34.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

36.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

39.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

40.

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

41.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

42.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

47.

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

Landers, Ann

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