Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Irving, Washington

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

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

11.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

13.

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

14.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Jong, Erica

19.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

20.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

21.

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

22.

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

Key, Ellen

23.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

24.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

25.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

30.

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

31.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Vass, Susan

36.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

37.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Skelton, Red

40.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Halen

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

48.

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

Alexander, Shana

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.