Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Will Rogers

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Landers, Ann

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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.

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

Mickey Rooney

11.

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

Hull, Raymond

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

14.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

15.

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

16.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Elizabeth I

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

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

21.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

23.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Sunday, Billy

25.

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

26.

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

Kinison, Sam

27.

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

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Moliere

31.

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

Rudner, Rita

32.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

33.

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

34.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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

38.

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

Rita Rudner

39.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

40.

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

Barrymore, John

41.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

42.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

43.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

44.

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

Chopin, Daniel

45.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

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

Proverb

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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

49.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

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

Myers, Cecil