Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Key, Ellen

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

Updike, John

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Rita Rudner

10.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

11.

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

Wycherley, William

12.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

13.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

Halen

15.

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

Landers, Ann

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Victoria, Queen

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

30.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

34.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Maurois, Andre

38.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

39.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Ruckett

42.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

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

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

45.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

46.

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

Kathleen Norris

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Scottish