Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Moliere

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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

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

10.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

14.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

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

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

Pearl Buck

17.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

18.

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

Lennon, John

19.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

20.

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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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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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

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

27.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

28.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

29.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

30.

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

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

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

Congreve, William

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Penn, William

42.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

43.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

44.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

49.

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

Sunday, Billy