Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Baum, Vicki

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Novalis

10.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

Prior, Matthew

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Samuel, Herbert

16.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

17.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

18.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

19.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

23.

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

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

27.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

29.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

30.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

31.

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

Rooney, Mickey

32.

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

Bundy, Peg

33.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

34.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

35.

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

Billings, Josh

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

37.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

38.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

39.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Wycherley, William

41.

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

Lennon, John

42.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

45.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

46.

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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

48.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

49.

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

Mickey Rooney

50.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra