Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Landers, Ann

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

12.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Graham, James

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

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

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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.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

24.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

25.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Jong, Erica

29.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

30.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

32.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Irving, Washington

35.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

37.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

39.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

40.

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

Coward, Noel

41.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

42.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

46.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Eliot, George

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.