Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Jong, Erica

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Wilder, Thornton

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

10.

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

Murray, Joe

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Wycherley, William

16.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

18.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

19.

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

Pancoast, Mal

20.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

21.

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

Bennett, Jill

22.

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

23.

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

Kauffman, Max

24.

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

Samuel, Herbert

25.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

26.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

27.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

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

31.

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

Irving, Washington

32.

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

33.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

34.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

36.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

39.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

40.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

41.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

42.

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

Young, Brigham

43.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

44.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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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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

49.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose