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

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Helen Rowland

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Mickey Rooney

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Elizabeth I

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

10.

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

11.

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

Pearl Buck

12.

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

Ruckett

13.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

14.

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

15.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Harrison, Jane

19.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

20.

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

Bush, Barbara

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

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

23.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

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

25.

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

Eucharista Ward

26.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

27.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

28.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

30.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

31.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

34.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

35.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

38.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

40.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Mae West

43.

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

Rita Rudner

44.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

45.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.