Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

10.

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

Bennett, Jill

11.

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

12.

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

Heine, Heinrich

13.

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

14.

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

15.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

16.

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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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

18.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

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

20.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

21.

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

Elizabeth I

22.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

23.

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

24.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

25.

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

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Baskins

28.

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

Byron, Lord

29.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

30.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

31.

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

Nick Faldo

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

34.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

35.

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

Samuel, Herbert

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

41.

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

Rita Rudner

42.

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

43.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

44.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

46.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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

48.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

49.

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

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony