Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marx, Groucho

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Byron, Lord

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

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

11.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

17.

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

18.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

Rieux, Madame De

21.

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

Winters, Shelley

22.

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

Samuel, Herbert

23.

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

24.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

28.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

30.

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

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

Halen

32.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Andre Maurois

37.

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

38.

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

Key, Ellen

39.

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

Skelton, Red

40.

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

41.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

42.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

43.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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