Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Proverb

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

Prior, Matthew

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Elizabeth I

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

10.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

11.

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.

12.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

15.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

16.

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

Moliere

17.

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

Smalley, Gary

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

22.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

26.

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

27.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

36.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

37.

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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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

39.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

41.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

42.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Vries, Peter De

46.

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

Luther, Martin

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

48.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

William Shakespeare