Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Jong, Erica

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.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

10.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

Barrymore, John

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

18.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

19.

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

Key, Ellen

20.

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

21.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

22.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

23.

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

24.

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

Sunday, Billy

25.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

26.

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

Winters, Shelley

27.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Maurois, Andre

29.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

32.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

33.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

Bundy, Peg

36.

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

37.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

38.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.