Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

11.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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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

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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

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

Halen

20.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

21.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Baskins

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

Elizabeth I

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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.

30.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

31.

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

Baum, Vicki

32.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

33.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Heine, Heinrich

40.

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

Sunday, Billy

41.

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

Barrymore, John

42.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

45.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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

49.

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

Rowland, Helen

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen