Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

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

Nick Faldo

15.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

21.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

22.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

23.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Elizabeth I

29.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

31.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

32.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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

38.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Duncan, Isadora

41.

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

Will Rogers

42.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

43.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Baum, Vicki

45.

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

Mead, Margaret

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

49.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, German