Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Chatterton, Thomas

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Winters, Shelley

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

13.

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

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

15.

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

Penn, William

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

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

Spencer, Herbert

18.

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

19.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

20.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

21.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

22.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Rudner, Rita

27.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

30.

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

Moliere

31.

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

32.

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

Key, Ellen

33.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

34.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Wilder, Thornton

42.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

43.

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

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

50.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William