Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Landers, Ann

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

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

13.

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

Wycherley, William

14.

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

Thomason, Pauline

15.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

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

Graham, James

21.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

22.

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.

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Proverb

30.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

33.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

35.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

37.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

39.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

40.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

41.

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

Sunday, Billy

42.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

48.

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

Heine, Heinrich

49.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph