Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mae West

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Proverb

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

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

Jong, Erica

11.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

16.

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

Harrison, Jane

17.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

18.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

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

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

23.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

24.

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

25.

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

Nick Faldo

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

28.

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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

33.

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.

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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.

35.

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

36.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

40.

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

Vries, Peter De

41.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

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

Duncan, Isadora

47.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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