Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

13.

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

Elizabeth I

14.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

19.

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

Rieux, Madame De

20.

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

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

22.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

23.

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

24.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

25.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

30.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

31.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

32.

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

Heine, Heinrich

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

35.

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

36.

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

Bush, Barbara

37.

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

38.

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

Vass, Susan

39.

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

Spencer, Herbert

40.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

41.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

42.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

44.

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

Knowles, F. M.

45.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

46.

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

Rita Rudner

47.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

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

49.

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

Maurois, Andre

50.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La