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

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hull, Raymond

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

14.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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

17.

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

Clarke, W. A.

18.

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

19.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Rita Rudner

23.

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

Rooney, Mickey

24.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

27.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

Mae West

30.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

31.

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

32.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Balzac, Honore De

38.

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

Updike, John

39.

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

40.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

41.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

42.

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

43.

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

Peter Blake

44.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

45.

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

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

47.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

48.

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

Wycherley, William

49.

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

50.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.