Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

- Kauffman, Max

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Penn, William

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bennett, Jill

10.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

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

12.

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

Clarke, W. A.

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

15.

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

Wycherley, William

18.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

19.

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

Vass, Susan

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

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

Congreve, William

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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

24.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

25.

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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Pancoast, Mal

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

33.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Mignon McLaughlin

36.

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

37.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.