Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Hitopadesa

10.

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

11.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

17.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

18.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

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

Heine, Heinrich

20.

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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

22.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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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

25.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

26.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

27.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

29.

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

30.

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

Luther, Martin

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Moliere

36.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

37.

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.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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

Updike, John

42.

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

43.

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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

45.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

47.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

49.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

50.

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

Baum, Vicki