Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Dave Meurer

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

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

Baskins

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

Peter Blake

15.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

19.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Mickey Rooney

23.

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

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

26.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

27.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Eucharista Ward

29.

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

Harrison, Jane

30.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

31.

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

32.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Duncan, Isadora

38.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Farquhar, George

40.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

41.

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

Carson, Johnny

42.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

43.

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

Kauffman, Max

44.

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

45.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

46.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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

48.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

49.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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