171 Getting Married Quotes

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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!. — Alan Jay Lerner

If I get married, I want to be very married. — Audrey Hepburn

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. — Socrates

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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. — Jean Kerr

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — G. K. Chesterton

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole

I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die. — Charles XII of Sweden

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. — Albert Camus

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. — Barbara De Angelis

Live together a year before getting married. — Moroccan Proverbs

Short Getting Married Quotes

  • Get to know your fiance well before getting married. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
  • Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire
  • A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it — Socrates
  • The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love — Joe Louis
  • A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin
  • The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
  • Marriage isn't a carnival ride. — Aisha Tyler
  • Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Top 10 Getting Married Quotes

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

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable. — Matt Chandler

If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us. — G-Dragon

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. — Katharine Hepburn

I don't want to study, I want to get married! — Russian Proverbs

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married. — Florynce Kennedy

All marriages are same sex marriages. You get married and every night, it's the same sex. — Bill Maher

Getting Married Image Quotes

Getting married quote Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Sister Getting Married Quotes

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?' — Emo Philips

I am definitely one of those girls who want to get married. I have two sisters and they are both married with kids, and I'm like, 'Oh, I want that.' — Sophie Monk

I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it's a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car. — Tiesto

Getting married quote Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream. — Indra Nooyi

I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture. — Blair Underwood

Right now the tabloids are saying I'm pregnant, and they're naming the baby. It's hilarious. I don't know when I'll want to get married. I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister's wedding,I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I'd want. I don't think I want a big one. — Beyonce Knowles

Getting married quote Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.

My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning. — Samuel Alito

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild. — Aasif Mandvi

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas. — Eoin Colfer

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married. — Natalie Wood

Daughter Getting Married Quotes

No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible. — Indira Gandhi

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else. — Cher

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children. — Christine Baranski

Getting married quote Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't sh
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.

My vision that I’m living is to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times. — Chuck Pagano

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married. — Seth Grahame-Smith

We Are Getting Married Quotes

We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd. — Howard Stern

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother. — Sevyn Streeter

Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could]. — Charlize Theron

Getting married quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel. — LaToya Jackson

Just open your heart man and accept that people are gay. Thousands, probably millions of people are gay. And until we find a cure - we will practice unconditional love and tolerance towards these people. And we will let them get married because they're easier to track that way. — Arj Barker

All fanmail is a bit of fun. We do get some nice letters and some fanatical mail too. There's one woman who thinks me and her are married and has asked when she can come home. That's a bit spooky. — Peter Andre

Getting married quote Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.
Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.

Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change. — Richard G. Scott

Actually I am the one to blame. I was the one who had said that maybe I would be married in two years time. But things are different now and there is still time before I get married. As the saying goes, 'Man proposes, God disposes', every time we make a plan God changes it. — Katrina Kaif

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years. — Drew Brees

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait. — Benny Anderson

Finally Getting Married Quotes

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win. — Justin Halpern

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. — Rick Moody

I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you. — Raven-Symone

Getting married quote The smarter you get, the less you speak.
The smarter you get, the less you speak.

People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?" — Jerry Seinfeld

I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died! — Bette Davis

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. — Danny Bonaduce

Being Married Quotes

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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 thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare

Getting married quote Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.
Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled

Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less. — Nouman Ali Khan

Getting married quote You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".
You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. — Joanne Woodward

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. — Yiddish Proverbs

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone. — Julian Bond

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. — Jimmy Carter

Wedding Quotes

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy

Wedding Marriage Quotes

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. - William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson

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

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. — Johnny Carson

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou

Wedding Day Quotes

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker

It will heal before your wedding day. — Russian Proverbs

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. - Big Pun

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Corpses and annoying guests stink by the third day — Mexican Proverbs

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. — Cecelia Ahern

There’s days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don’t. You just pray that doesn’t happen the night of the fight. — Holly Holm

Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this. — R.K. Narayan

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day. — Sarah Ruhl

Got Married Quotes

What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons. — Gene Wilder

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams. — Beyonce Knowles

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst. — Zach Braff

Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry. — Greta Garbo

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better. — Linda Evans

We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. — June Carter Cash

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. — Harold Robbins

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — Billie Holiday

I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me. — Bon Scott

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home. — Rob Ford

Wedding Ceremony Quotes

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach

I love you for the part of me that you bring out. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you for the part of me that you bring out. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The animals sacrificed feet of the bride during the wedding ceremony. — Turkish Proverbs

We sit in a room, laugh, and all come up with comedy situations, which we work out. Sometimes we cross the line, like getting a guy to pull out of his own wedding while the ceremony's taking place. — Joe Gatto

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. — Margery Williams

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda

My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. — Louis de Bernieres

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. — James Dillet Freeman

When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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More Getting Married Quotes

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. — Ratan Tata

Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. — Walter E. Williams

If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong. — Mary Edwards Walker

The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple. — Si Robertson

George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award. — Tina Fey

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. — Michael J. Fox

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. — Elbert Hubbard

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy. — Bar Refaeli

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. — Socrates

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in. — Lisa Loeb

The monk gets married to please his friend. — Albanian Proverbs

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea. — Anthony Perkins

Don’t get married to the idea of something having to be one way. — Hannah Bronfman

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. — Clint Eastwood

I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. — Rob Portman

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. — Eric Hiscock

The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but... — Gene Roddenberry

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. — Iris Murdoch

A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness. — Kenneth Faried

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. — Jennifer Crusie

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. — Sam Kinison

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. — Maya Angelou

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. — Gary Chapman

There is no stress. I live my life, I enjoy it and when I am comfortable I can get married. — Usain Bolt

Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it. — Heather Locklear

I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery... — Gertrude B. Elion

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