Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Knowles, F. M.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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

10.

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

Mickey Rooney

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, German

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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

14.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

17.

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

Prior, Matthew

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Pancoast, Mal

29.

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

Irving, Washington

30.

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

31.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

35.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

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

39.

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

Rieux, Madame De

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

44.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

45.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis