Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Irving, Washington

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hull, Raymond

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

12.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

15.

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

Allen, Woody

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

18.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

21.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

22.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

25.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

26.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

27.

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

Peter Blake

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

30.

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

Chopin, Daniel

31.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

32.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

34.

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

Samuel, Herbert

35.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

36.

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

37.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

38.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

39.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

40.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Winters, Shelley

42.

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

Wilder, Thornton

43.

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

Moliere

44.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Duncan, Isadora

47.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alexander, Shana

50.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma