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

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bennett, Jill

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

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Sunday, Billy

13.

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

14.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

15.

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

Spencer, Herbert

16.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

22.

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

Alexander, Shana

23.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

25.

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

26.

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

Rieux, Madame De

27.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

28.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

29.

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

30.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

31.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

32.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

37.

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

Baum, Vicki

38.

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

Will Rogers

39.

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

Thomason, Pauline

40.

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

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

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

47.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

50.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.