Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bennett, Jill

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Nick Faldo

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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

14.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

15.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

16.

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

17.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

19.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

21.

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

22.

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

Hitopadesa

23.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

26.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

28.

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

Peter Blake

29.

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

30.

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

Kathleen Norris

31.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

33.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

34.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

35.

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

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

41.

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

Proverb, Scottish

42.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

45.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Carson, Johnny

47.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Hesiod

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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