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

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

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Penn, William

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

Proverb, German

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

10.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

11.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

15.

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

Mae West

16.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

17.

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

18.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

19.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

20.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

21.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

22.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

23.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

24.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

28.

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

Marx, Groucho

29.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

30.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Will Rogers

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Jong, Erica

36.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Irving, Washington

38.

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

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Bennett, Jill

42.

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

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

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

Peter Blake

48.

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

49.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

50.

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