Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Moliere

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Peter Blake

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Dave Meurer

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Chopin, Daniel

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

22.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

23.

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

24.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Vries, Peter De

37.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

42.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

43.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

44.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

46.

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

47.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

48.

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

49.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

50.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish