Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Hitopadesa

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

Harrison, Jane

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Baskins

13.

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

Proverb, Scottish

14.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Wilson, Earl

20.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

21.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

22.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

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

25.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

26.

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

Wilder, Thornton

27.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

28.

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

Hull, Raymond

29.

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

Coward, Noel

30.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

31.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Updike, John

33.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

34.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

35.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Proverb, German

37.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

40.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

42.

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

Bible

43.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

47.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

48.

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

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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

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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