Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Jong, Erica

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

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

Vries, Peter De

10.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

Hitopadesa

12.

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

13.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

14.

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

Kinison, Sam

15.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

16.

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

Farquhar, George

17.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

18.

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

Pearl Buck

19.

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

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Barrymore, John

27.

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

28.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

32.

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

Rudner, Rita

33.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

34.

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

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

Peter Blake

37.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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

39.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

40.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

41.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

42.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

44.

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.

45.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

46.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

47.

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

Luther, Martin

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.