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

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

Connolly, Cyril

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Victoria, Queen

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

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hull, Raymond

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Updike, John

10.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

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

Ruckett

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

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

Duncan, Isadora

17.

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

Hitopadesa

18.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

20.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

21.

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

22.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

26.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

27.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Sunday, Billy

30.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

34.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

35.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

37.

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

38.

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

Duncan, Isadora

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Graham, James

41.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

42.

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

Moliere

43.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

44.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

45.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

46.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

47.

Ferber, Edna

48.

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

49.

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

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

Novalis