Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

10.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

12.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

Coward, Noel

15.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

18.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

19.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

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

22.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

23.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

28.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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.

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

Balzac, Honore De

32.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

38.

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

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

40.

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

41.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Moliere

43.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

44.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Bennett, Jill

46.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

47.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides