Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Spencer, Herbert

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Byron, Lord

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

10.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

11.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

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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

16.

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

17.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

18.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

19.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

20.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

21.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

22.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

23.

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

24.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

Cosby, Bill

26.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

30.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

31.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

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

33.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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.

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

Winters, Shelley

37.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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

Miller, Harlan

40.

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

41.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

43.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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

Peter Blake

46.

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

47.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

48.

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

49.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen