Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

10.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Murray, Joe

15.

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

Skelton, Red

16.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

17.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

20.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

21.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

22.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

23.

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

Barrymore, John

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Halen

29.

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

30.

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

Bush, Barbara

31.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

32.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

33.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

34.

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

Myers, Cecil

35.

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

Novalis

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

37.

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

Rieux, Madame De

38.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

39.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!