Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Peter Blake

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

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

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

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Helen Rowland

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Thomason, Pauline

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Jong, Erica

14.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

Prior, Matthew

17.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

18.

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

19.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

20.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

23.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Chopin, Daniel

29.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

36.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

37.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

40.

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

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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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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

47.

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

Ford, Richard

48.

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

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

Andre Maurois

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

Proverb, German