Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Grizzard, Lewis

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, German

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

Moliere

10.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

11.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

12.

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

Key, Ellen

13.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Baskins

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Peter Blake

17.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

21.

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

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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

23.

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

24.

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

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

Chopin, Daniel

26.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

32.

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

Knowles, F. M.

33.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Maurois, Andre

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Penn, William

39.

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.

40.

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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

42.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

43.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ruckett

47.

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

Barrymore, John

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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

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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

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan