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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Rooney, Mickey

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Nick Faldo

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bush, Barbara

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

10.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

11.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

12.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

13.

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

14.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

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

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

18.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Kathleen Norris

22.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

23.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

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

Rieux, Madame De

26.

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

27.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

30.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

34.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

35.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

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

Samuel, Herbert

37.

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

Baskins

38.

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

Hull, Raymond

39.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

40.

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

41.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

42.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

43.

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

Thomason, Pauline

44.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

45.

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