Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Rowland, Helen

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

10.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

11.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

12.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Baskins

14.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

21.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

22.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

25.

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

26.

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

Wilson, Earl

27.

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

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

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

Chopin, Daniel

31.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

32.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

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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

36.

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

37.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

38.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Marx, Groucho

42.

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

43.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

44.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

45.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

46.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

47.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

49.

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

Rooney, Mickey

50.

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