Motivational Quotes

Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

10.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

12.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

20.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

21.

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

22.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

23.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

24.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

25.

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

31.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

32.

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

33.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

Bennett, Jill

35.

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

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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.

Landers, Ann

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

43.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Samuel, Herbert

45.

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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

50.

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