Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Rooney, Mickey

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Young, Brigham

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

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

Graham, James

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

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

17.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

19.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

20.

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

Wycherley, William

22.

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

23.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Will Rogers

31.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

32.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

33.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

34.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

36.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

37.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

38.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

39.

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

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.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

44.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin