Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nelms, Cynthia

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

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

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Rieux, Madame De

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

10.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

12.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

16.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

23.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

24.

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

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

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

Rudner, Rita

30.

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

31.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

33.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

34.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

35.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

36.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

41.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

42.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

43.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

44.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

45.

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

Elizabeth I

46.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

49.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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.