Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Mickey Rooney

10.

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.

11.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

13.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

17.

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

Rieux, Madame De

18.

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

Wilder, Thornton

19.

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

20.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

21.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

22.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

27.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

28.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

29.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

30.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

35.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

36.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

37.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

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

Rooney, Mickey

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Halen

45.

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

46.

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

Hitopadesa

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Young, Brigham

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

50.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica