Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Graham, James

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

Proverb

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mae West

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

16.

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

Proverb

17.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

18.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bundy, Peg

22.

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

23.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

24.

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

Halen

25.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

33.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

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.

37.

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

Nick Faldo

38.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

43.

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

44.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

45.

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

46.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

47.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

48.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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