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

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Balzac, Honore De

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

10.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

12.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

14.

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

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

16.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

17.

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

Proverb

18.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

19.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

20.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

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

Heine, Heinrich

23.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

24.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

27.

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

28.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

29.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

31.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

32.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

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

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

35.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

Hesiod

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

43.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

44.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

45.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

46.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Eucharista Ward

48.

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

Rita Rudner

49.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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