Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

Proverb

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

Rita Rudner

12.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

13.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

14.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

15.

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

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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

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

18.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Rudner, Rita

20.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

22.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

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

24.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Kathleen Norris

28.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

29.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

30.

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

31.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

32.

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

Alexander, Shana

33.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

35.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

38.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

39.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Proverb

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