Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Luther, Martin

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Rowland, Helen

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

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

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.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

14.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

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

Young, Brigham

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Harrison, Jane

18.

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

19.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

20.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

27.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

28.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

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

Smalley, Gary

32.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

Winters, Shelley

34.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Jong, Erica

36.

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

Coward, Noel

37.

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

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

42.

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

Eucharista Ward

43.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

45.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

46.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

47.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

48.

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

Mickey Rooney

49.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen