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

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

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Rooney, Mickey

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mae West

10.

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

11.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

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

13.

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

Thomason, Pauline

14.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

15.

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

Peter Blake

16.

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

Novalis

17.

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

Farquhar, George

18.

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

19.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

20.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

21.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

24.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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.

29.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

34.

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

Nick Faldo

35.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

36.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

39.

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

40.

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

Andre Maurois

41.

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

42.

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

43.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

44.

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

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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One man's folly is another man's wife.