Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Luther, Martin

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Bush, Barbara

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Clarke, W. A.

11.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

12.

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

13.

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

Eucharista Ward

14.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

15.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

16.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

17.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

22.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Maurois, Andre

24.

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

25.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

32.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

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

Graham, James

34.

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

35.

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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mickey Rooney

38.

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

Congreve, William

39.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

40.

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

41.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Wilson, Earl

44.

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

45.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

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

47.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.