Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Farquhar, George

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

Luther, Martin

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Novalis

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

11.

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

Barrymore, John

12.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

13.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Thomason, Pauline

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

17.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

18.

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

Harrison, Jane

19.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Will Rogers

22.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

Heine, Heinrich

24.

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

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

28.

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

29.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

30.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

31.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

32.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

33.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

34.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

36.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

37.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

38.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

40.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

41.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

42.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

45.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

46.

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

47.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

48.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

49.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ruckett