Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Elizabeth I

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

10.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

11.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

Helen Rowland

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

17.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

18.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

19.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

21.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

22.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

24.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

27.

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

Eucharista Ward

28.

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

Smalley, Gary

29.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

33.

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

Rudner, Rita

34.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

35.

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

36.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

37.

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

38.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

39.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

42.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

45.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

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

Mae West

48.

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

Carson, Johnny

49.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

50.

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