Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Halen

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Moliere

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilder, Thornton

10.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

11.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

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

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

17.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

18.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

19.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

20.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

31.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

32.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

37.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Skelton, Red

40.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

41.

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

Samuel, Herbert

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

45.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

46.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

47.

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

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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