Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

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

10.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

12.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Mae West

22.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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

Baskins

27.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

30.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

31.

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

Murray, Joe

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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

36.

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

Rooney, Mickey

37.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

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

40.

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

41.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

42.

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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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

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

45.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

46.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

47.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

49.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.