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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Pancoast, Mal

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

10.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Baum, Vicki

17.

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

18.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

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

Duncan, Isadora

20.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

21.

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

Wilder, Thornton

22.

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.

Landers, Ann

23.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

28.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

30.

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

Smalley, Gary

31.

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

Heine, Heinrich

32.

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

Kauffman, Max

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

36.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

37.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

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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.

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

46.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

48.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

49.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

50.

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