Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rooney, Mickey

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Knowles, F. M.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

10.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

11.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Graham, James

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

15.

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

Penn, William

16.

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

17.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

18.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, German

27.

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.

28.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Rieux, Madame De

34.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

35.

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

36.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

37.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

38.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

39.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

41.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

42.

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

43.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

44.

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

Baum, Vicki

45.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

46.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kathleen Norris