Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rooney, Mickey

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Grizzard, Lewis

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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

11.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

12.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

13.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

17.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

19.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

20.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

24.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

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

Myers, Cecil

26.

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

27.

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.

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 should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

30.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

31.

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

32.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

33.

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

Baskins

34.

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

Key, Ellen

35.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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