Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Billings, Josh

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

10.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

15.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

20.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

21.

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

Dave Meurer

22.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

23.

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.

24.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

26.

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

Alexander, Shana

27.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

33.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

34.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

40.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

42.

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

Wilder, Thornton

43.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

47.

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

Luther, Martin

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Bundy, Peg

50.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert