Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Bush, Barbara

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

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Updike, John

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

14.

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

15.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

16.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

18.

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

19.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

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

21.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

22.

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

23.

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

Prior, Matthew

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

26.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

29.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

30.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

34.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

35.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

Wilder, Thornton

37.

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

38.

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

Rowland, Helen

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Proverb

47.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

48.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

49.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann