Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Mencken, H. L.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

10.

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

11.

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

Vries, Peter De

12.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

17.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

20.

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

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

22.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

27.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

30.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

31.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

32.

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

Novalis

33.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

34.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

44.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

45.

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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.