Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Halen

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Barrymore, John

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

17.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

19.

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.

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

22.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

28.

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

29.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

30.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

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

Key, Ellen

34.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Allen, Woody

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

41.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

45.

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

Dave Meurer

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