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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Elizabeth I

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

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Hesiod

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

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

Baskins

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

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

Pearl Buck

12.

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

13.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

14.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mignon McLaughlin

17.

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

18.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

21.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

22.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

23.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

24.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

25.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

27.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

34.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

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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

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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

39.

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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Ruckett

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

45.

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

Mickey Rooney

46.

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

Wycherley, William

47.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

48.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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

50.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish