Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

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

Irving, Washington

10.

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

Mccant, Jerry

11.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

14.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Chopin, Daniel

18.

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

Farquhar, George

19.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

21.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

22.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

23.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

24.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

31.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

35.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

36.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

37.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

39.

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

Winters, Shelley

40.

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

41.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

42.

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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

45.

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

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Eucharista Ward

49.

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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid