Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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 difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

10.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

12.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb, Scottish

14.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

15.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Moliere

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

24.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

Winters, Shelley

29.

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

Harrison, Jane

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

32.

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

Baskins

33.

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

Baum, Vicki

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

37.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

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

Kauffman, Max

39.

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

40.

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

Halen

41.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

42.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

43.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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.

45.

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.

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

Graham, James

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.