Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Best Quotes about Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Ziglar, Zig

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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 a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Mickey Rooney

11.

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

Graham, James

12.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

14.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

15.

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

16.

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

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

18.

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

19.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

20.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

21.

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

Thomason, Pauline

22.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Dave Meurer

25.

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

Nick Faldo

26.

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

Farquhar, George

27.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

28.

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

Rooney, Mickey

29.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

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

Samuel, Herbert

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

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

37.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

38.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

41.

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

42.

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

43.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Helen Rowland

47.

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

Marx, Groucho

48.

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

Alexander, Shana

49.

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

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

Byron, Lord