Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Rowland, Helen

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Vries, Peter De

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

16.

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

Baskins

17.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

20.

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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Rooney, Mickey

23.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

26.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

29.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

30.

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

31.

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

Bundy, Peg

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

Pancoast, Mal

35.

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

36.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

37.

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

38.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

39.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

40.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

41.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

42.

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

Harrison, Jane

43.

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

44.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

45.

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

Moliere

46.

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

Eucharista Ward

47.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.