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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Luther, Martin

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

Nick Faldo

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hesiod

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

10.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

12.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Carson, Johnny

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

22.

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

23.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

26.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

27.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

28.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

34.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

37.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

40.

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

41.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

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

Thomason, Pauline

43.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

49.

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

50.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan