Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Spanish

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

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

Rita Rudner

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

13.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

Graham, James

15.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

16.

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

17.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

19.

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

Skelton, Red

20.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

21.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

22.

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

Proverb, German

23.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

27.

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

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Peter Blake

30.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Heine, Heinrich

35.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

36.

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

Hitopadesa

37.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Baum, Vicki

40.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

41.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

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

Baskins

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Samuel, Herbert

48.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish