Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

13.

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

Congreve, William

14.

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

Myers, Cecil

15.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

16.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

20.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

21.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Ruckett

24.

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

Miller, Harlan

25.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

27.

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

Bush, Barbara

28.

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

29.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

31.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

33.

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

34.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

35.

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

Sunday, Billy

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Mae West

39.

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

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Maurois, Andre

42.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Proverb, Scottish

45.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

46.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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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

48.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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

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

Coward, Noel