Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Nick Faldo

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Baum, Vicki

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

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

Halen

10.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

11.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Rieux, Madame De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

17.

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

Wilder, Thornton

18.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

19.

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

20.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

21.

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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

25.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

26.

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

27.

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

Mickey Rooney

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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

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

31.

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

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Graham, James

35.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

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

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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

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

40.

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

Baskins

41.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..