Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Rudner, Rita

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

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Sunday, Billy

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.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

15.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

16.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

17.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

18.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

21.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

22.

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

23.

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

Mae West

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

26.

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

27.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

28.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

33.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

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

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

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

Peter Blake

37.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

39.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

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

42.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

43.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

44.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

45.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

46.

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

Chopin, Daniel

47.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

48.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

49.

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

Proverb, Scottish

50.

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