Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

10.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

11.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

13.

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

14.

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

Vass, Susan

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

Penn, William

18.

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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

20.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

21.

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

22.

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

Graham, James

23.

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

24.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

26.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

27.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

28.

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

Elizabeth I

29.

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

30.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

31.

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

32.

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

Rooney, Mickey

33.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Winters, Shelley

35.

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

Victoria, Queen

36.

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

Kathleen Norris

37.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

42.

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

Thomason, Pauline

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

45.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

49.

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

50.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich