Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Rieux, Madame De

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

10.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

11.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

12.

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

Connolly, Cyril

13.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

14.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

15.

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

16.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

17.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

20.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

22.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

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

24.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

25.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

26.

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

Miller, Harlan

27.

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

28.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

30.

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

Young, Brigham

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

33.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

34.

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

35.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

36.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

37.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

38.

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

Nick Faldo

39.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

40.

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

Mickey Rooney

41.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

42.

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

Harrison, Jane

43.

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

44.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

45.

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.

46.

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

Kauffman, Max

47.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.