Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Heine, Heinrich

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Rowland, Helen

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

11.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

Elizabeth I

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

17.

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

18.

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

Samuel, Herbert

19.

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

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

22.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

23.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

24.

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

Proverb

25.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

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

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

31.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

32.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

33.

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

Balzac, Honore De

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

36.

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

Wilder, Thornton

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

42.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Ruckett

44.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

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

50.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

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