Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Pancoast, Mal

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

12.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

13.

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

Farquhar, George

14.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

15.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

16.

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

17.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

25.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

26.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

28.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

29.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

32.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

33.

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

34.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

35.

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

Kathleen Norris

36.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

37.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig