Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Samuel, Herbert

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Andre Maurois

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

10.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

11.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

12.

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

13.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

14.

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

Barrymore, John

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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

16.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

17.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

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

19.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

20.

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

Kathleen Norris

21.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

24.

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

Hitopadesa

25.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

Bible

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

30.

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

31.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

33.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

34.

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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

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

Farquhar, George

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Chopin, Daniel

40.

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

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

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

44.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Rita Rudner

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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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bierce, Ambrose