Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

10.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Hull, Raymond

16.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

17.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

18.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

Thomason, Pauline

21.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Will Rogers

24.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

25.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

27.

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

28.

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

Rooney, Mickey

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

30.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

32.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

34.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

41.

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

48.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

50.

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

Marx, Groucho