Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Hitopadesa

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

10.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

13.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

14.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

24.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

26.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

27.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Mickey Rooney

29.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

30.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

31.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

Smalley, Gary

34.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

35.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

36.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

39.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

46.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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