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

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

11.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

12.

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

13.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

14.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

15.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

16.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

18.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Halen

20.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

Peter Blake

24.

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

25.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

27.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

28.

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

Wilson, Earl

29.

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

30.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

35.

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

36.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

39.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

40.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

42.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid