Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

2.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

3.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

4.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

5.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

6.

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

Wilson, Earl

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

9.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

13.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Prior, Matthew

17.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

18.

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

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

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

23.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

24.

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

Farquhar, George

25.

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

Moliere

26.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

31.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

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

Novalis

36.

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

Victoria, Queen

37.

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

38.

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

Coward, Noel

39.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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.

43.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

44.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Scottish

48.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

49.

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.

50.

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