Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Bush, Barbara

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

10.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

16.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

17.

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

Key, Ellen

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

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

20.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

23.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

24.

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

25.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

27.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

28.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

29.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

30.

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.

31.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

36.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Eucharista Ward

38.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

Myers, Cecil

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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