Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

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

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Vass, Susan

10.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Moliere

20.

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

Knowles, F. M.

21.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

22.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

26.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

27.

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

Chopin, Daniel

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

38.

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

43.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

Rieux, Madame De

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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