Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

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

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

Hesiod

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

11.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

12.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

13.

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

14.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

15.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

18.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

21.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

Novalis

25.

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

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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

27.

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.

28.

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

Wycherley, William

29.

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

33.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

36.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

37.

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

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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

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

41.

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

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