Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Elizabeth I

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

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

11.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Novalis

13.

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

Penn, William

14.

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

Congreve, William

15.

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

Mae West

16.

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

Myers, Cecil

17.

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

Victoria, Queen

18.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

20.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

24.

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.

25.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

27.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

28.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

31.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

33.

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

35.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

36.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

37.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

38.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

39.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

Kauffman, Max

41.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

45.

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

Rieux, Madame De

46.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

48.

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

Andre Maurois

49.

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

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

Byron, Lord