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

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Carson, Johnny

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

William Shakespeare

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

Elizabeth I

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

Baskins

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

10.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

11.

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

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

Thomason, Pauline

14.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

15.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

16.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

20.

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

Andre Maurois

21.

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

22.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

23.

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

Key, Ellen

24.

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

Kauffman, Max

25.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

31.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

32.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

33.

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

Jong, Erica

34.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

35.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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

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

Rita Rudner

38.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

41.

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

Mae West

42.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

43.

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

Barrymore, John

44.

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

Rooney, Mickey

45.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

46.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Wycherley, William

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

William Shakespeare

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.