Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Rudner, Rita

12.

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

Rooney, Mickey

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

17.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

18.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

19.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

20.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

21.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

25.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

26.

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

30.

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

31.

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

Young, Brigham

32.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

34.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

36.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

37.

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

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

39.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

40.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

45.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

46.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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

48.

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

Baskins

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.