Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

- Candice Bergen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Skelton, Red

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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

Prior, Matthew

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

14.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

15.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

21.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

22.

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

Alexander, Shana

23.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

28.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

29.

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

30.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

31.

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

Pearl Buck

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Bible

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

38.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

39.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

40.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

41.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

42.

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

Harrison, Jane

43.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

44.

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

45.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

46.

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

Duncan, Isadora

47.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Clarke, W. A.