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

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Mickey Rooney

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Murray, Joe

10.

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.

11.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

12.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

13.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

14.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

15.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

17.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

19.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

20.

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

Andre Maurois

21.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

22.

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

Novalis

23.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

28.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

29.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

34.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

37.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

39.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

41.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

42.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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