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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

William Shakespeare

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

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

Mead, Margaret

16.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

17.

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.

18.

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

Kinison, Sam

19.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

20.

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

Knowles, F. M.

21.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

26.

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

27.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

31.

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

Alexander, Shana

32.

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

Prior, Matthew

33.

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

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

35.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

38.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

39.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

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

41.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

42.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

44.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

45.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

47.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

48.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

49.

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

50.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

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