Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

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

Rowland, Helen

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Lawana Blackwell

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Mickey Rooney

11.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

12.

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

Cosby, Bill

13.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

14.

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

15.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

16.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

17.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

18.

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

19.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

20.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

21.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

22.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

24.

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

25.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

26.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

28.

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

Jong, Erica

29.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

30.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

34.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

36.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

38.

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

Moliere

39.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

40.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

41.

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

Nick Faldo

42.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

44.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

47.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

48.

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

Bennett, Jill

49.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

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