Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Irving, Washington

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

10.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

11.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

12.

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

13.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

14.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

17.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

18.

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

Farquhar, George

19.

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

20.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

21.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

22.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

23.

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Mickey Rooney

25.

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

Pancoast, Mal

26.

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

Pearl Buck

27.

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

Rieux, Madame De

28.

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

29.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

30.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

32.

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

33.

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

Wilson, Earl

34.

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

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

Heine, Heinrich

40.

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

Proverb, German

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

44.

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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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.

46.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

48.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

49.

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

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