Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

10.

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

11.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

12.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

13.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

14.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

15.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

16.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Coward, Noel

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

Irving, Washington

23.

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

Miller, Harlan

24.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

26.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

29.

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

Novalis

30.

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

Halen

31.

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

32.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

33.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

34.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

35.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

40.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

42.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

44.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

45.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

47.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

50.

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

Farquhar, George