Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Rita Rudner

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

Skelton, Red

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Halen

12.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

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

Congreve, William

17.

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

18.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, German

21.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

22.

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

Thomason, Pauline

23.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

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

25.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

28.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

31.

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

32.

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

Key, Ellen

33.

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

34.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

35.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

36.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

37.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

38.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

39.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

40.

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

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

43.

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

Winters, Shelley

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Ruckett

46.

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

Andre Maurois

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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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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