Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

- Barth, Joseph

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Heine, Heinrich

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

21.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

22.

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

Key, Ellen

23.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

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

Miller, Harlan

29.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

30.

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

31.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

32.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

33.

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

Samuel, Herbert

34.

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

Prior, Matthew

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.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

37.

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

38.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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

40.

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

41.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

42.

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

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

Harrison, Jane

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.

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

Mae West

46.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

48.

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

49.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

50.

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