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

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

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

Prior, Matthew

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

11.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

12.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

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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

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

18.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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

20.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

21.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

22.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

23.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

Baum, Vicki

28.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

29.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

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

Halen

33.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

34.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Will Rogers

36.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

37.

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

38.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Winters, Shelley

46.

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

47.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

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

Heine, Heinrich

49.

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.