Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

11.

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

Irving, Washington

12.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

13.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

14.

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

15.

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

16.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

20.

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

Skelton, Red

21.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

22.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

23.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

24.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

25.

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

26.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

27.

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

Sunday, Billy

28.

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

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

31.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

32.

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

33.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

34.

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

Carson, Johnny

35.

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

36.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

37.

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

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

39.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

40.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

41.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

42.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

44.

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

45.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

46.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

47.

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

48.

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

49.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

50.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward