Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

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

Bible

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Marx, Groucho

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

10.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

11.

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

Young, Brigham

12.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

15.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

18.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

19.

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

Kinison, Sam

20.

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

21.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Thomason, Pauline

24.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

26.

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

27.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

28.

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

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

34.

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

35.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

38.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

39.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

43.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.