Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

2.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

3.

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

Elizabeth I

4.

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

Clarke, W. A.

5.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

6.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

7.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

8.

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

Mae West

9.

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

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Vries, Peter De

12.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

13.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

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

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

21.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

22.

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

23.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

27.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

28.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

29.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

31.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

Duncan, Isadora

36.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Moliere

40.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

41.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

42.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

43.

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

Graham, James

44.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

47.

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

Byron, Lord

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

50.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra