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 am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

10.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

11.

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

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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

13.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

14.

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

15.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

16.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

17.

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

Mead, Margaret

18.

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

Alexander, Shana

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

23.

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

24.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

27.

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

28.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

31.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Victoria, Queen

33.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

34.

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

Bible

35.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

36.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

37.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

38.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

39.

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

Duncan, Isadora

40.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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

43.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

44.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

45.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

46.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

47.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

48.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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