Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

Skelton, Red

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Duncan, Isadora

15.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

16.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

17.

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

18.

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

Duncan, Isadora

19.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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

21.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

23.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

24.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

29.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

30.

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

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

33.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

34.

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.

35.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

38.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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

40.

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

Rieux, Madame De

41.

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

Prior, Matthew

42.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

43.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.