Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lawana Blackwell

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

10.

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

Rooney, Mickey

11.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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

15.

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

Hull, Raymond

16.

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

Mead, Margaret

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

18.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

19.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

20.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

21.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

22.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

23.

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

Knowles, F. M.

24.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

25.

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

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Penn, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

33.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

34.

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

35.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

40.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Eliot, George

43.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny