Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Knowles, F. M.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

12.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Congreve, William

18.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

19.

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

Mae West

20.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

25.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

28.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

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

Pancoast, Mal

33.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

35.

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

Bible

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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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

40.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

45.

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

Will Rogers

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine