Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

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

Hesiod

10.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

11.

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

12.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

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

Baskins

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

18.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

19.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

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

21.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

22.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

26.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

27.

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

28.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

29.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

30.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

31.

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

32.

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

Balzac, Honore De

33.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

39.

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

Kauffman, Max

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

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

45.

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

46.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

47.

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Harrison, Jane