Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

- Smith, Anna Nicole

Best Quotes about Marriage

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Nick Faldo

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Mae West

10.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

11.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

12.

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

Peter Blake

13.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

14.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

16.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

17.

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

Mead, Margaret

18.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

23.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Miller, Harlan

27.

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

Rooney, Mickey

28.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

29.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

31.

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

32.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

33.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

34.

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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

36.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

37.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

40.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

41.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

42.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

44.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

45.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

46.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mignon McLaughlin