Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Prior, Matthew

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Dave Meurer

11.

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

12.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

14.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Moliere

16.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

17.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Andre Maurois

20.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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

25.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Nick Faldo

30.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

32.

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

33.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

36.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

38.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

40.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

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

45.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden