Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

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

Key, Ellen

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Rooney, Mickey

12.

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

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

14.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

15.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

Heine, Heinrich

20.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

21.

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

Young, Brigham

22.

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

Cosby, Bill

23.

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

Will Rogers

24.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

25.

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

26.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Farquhar, George

28.

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

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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

30.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

31.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

32.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

35.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

39.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Wilson, Earl

41.

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

Carson, Johnny

42.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

43.

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

44.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

45.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

46.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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

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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

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.