Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Marriage

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Kathleen Norris

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

11.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

12.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

13.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

14.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

15.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

16.

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

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Bush, Barbara

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

21.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

22.

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

Clarke, W. A.

23.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

25.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

30.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

31.

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

32.

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

Key, Ellen

33.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

34.

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

Hesiod

35.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

36.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

37.

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

Proverb

38.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

39.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

40.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

45.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

46.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

47.

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

Victoria, Queen

48.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

49.

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

Landers, Ann

50.

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