Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Peter Blake

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

Alexander, Shana

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

Winters, Shelley

12.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

13.

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

Victoria, Queen

14.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

17.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

19.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

20.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

21.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Elizabeth I

25.

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

Vass, Susan

26.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

27.

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

28.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

29.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

30.

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

Skelton, Red

31.

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

Knowles, F. M.

32.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

37.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

40.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

41.

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

West, Mae

42.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, German

46.

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

Diller, Phyllis

47.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De