Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Wilder, Thornton

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Key, Ellen

11.

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

Congreve, William

12.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

13.

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

Winters, Shelley

14.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

16.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

17.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

18.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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

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

Irving, Washington

21.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Dave Meurer

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Ford, Richard

28.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

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

Mae West

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

32.

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

Thomason, Pauline

33.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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

Vries, Peter De

37.

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.

38.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

39.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

40.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

43.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

44.

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

48.

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

49.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Proverb, German