Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Clarke, W. A.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

13.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

25.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Dave Meurer

31.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

36.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

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

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Helen Rowland

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

48.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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.

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

Byron, Lord