Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Vries, Peter De

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

10.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

11.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

16.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

17.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

20.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

21.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

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

23.

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

Novalis

24.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

25.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

27.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

28.

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

Winters, Shelley

29.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

30.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

31.

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

32.

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

Vass, Susan

33.

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

34.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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

38.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

39.

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

Thomason, Pauline

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

43.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

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

Skelton, Red

46.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

47.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

48.

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

Key, Ellen

49.

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

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin