Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

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

Mae West

10.

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

Rieux, Madame De

11.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

12.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

16.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

18.

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

Coward, Noel

19.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

20.

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

Kauffman, Max

21.

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

22.

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

Knowles, F. M.

23.

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.

24.

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

29.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

30.

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

31.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

35.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

36.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

38.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

40.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

44.

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

Peter Blake

45.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

48.

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

Myers, Cecil

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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