Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Luther, Martin

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Vries, Peter De

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

13.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

14.

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

Myers, Cecil

15.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

18.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

21.

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

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

24.

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

25.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

26.

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

Will Rogers

27.

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

28.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

30.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

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

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Updike, John

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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

38.

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

Nick Faldo

39.

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

Rooney, Mickey

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Congreve, William

43.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

44.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

45.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

46.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

47.

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

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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

49.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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