Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Spanish

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Proverb, German

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Mickey Rooney

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.

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

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Mae West

11.

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

12.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

19.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

24.

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

Pearl Buck

25.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

26.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

27.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

28.

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

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

32.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

33.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

34.

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

Wilder, Thornton

35.

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

Nick Faldo

36.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

37.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

38.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

42.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

43.

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