Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bush, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Heine, Heinrich

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

11.

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

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

13.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

14.

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

15.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

16.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

17.

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

18.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

21.

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

Chopin, Daniel

22.

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

Halen

23.

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

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

Winters, Shelley

27.

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

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

29.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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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

39.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

40.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

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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.

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

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere