Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

12.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

13.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

17.

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

Vass, Susan

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.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

20.

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

21.

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

Skelton, Red

22.

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

23.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

24.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Updike, John

27.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

29.

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

Winters, Shelley

30.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

31.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

32.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

33.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

34.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

35.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

39.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

40.

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

41.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

43.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

44.

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

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Wilder, Thornton

46.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

47.

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

48.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

49.

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

50.

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

Moliere