Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Young, Brigham

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

11.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

12.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

13.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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

16.

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

17.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

18.

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

19.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

20.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

21.

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

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

24.

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.

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

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

29.

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

Kauffman, Max

30.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

33.

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

34.

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

Carson, Johnny

35.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

40.

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

Rudner, Rita

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

42.

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

Eucharista Ward

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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

44.

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

Bundy, Peg

45.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Luther, Martin

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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

49.

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

Bennett, Jill

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare