Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Samuel, Herbert

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Coward, Noel

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

William Shakespeare

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

12.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

13.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

14.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

15.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

16.

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.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

20.

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

21.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

22.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

23.

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

24.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

25.

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

26.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Baskins

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

31.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

32.

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

Wilder, Thornton

33.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Barrymore, John

35.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

36.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Hitopadesa

38.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

39.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

40.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

44.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

50.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen