Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Helen Rowland

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Irving, Washington

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

10.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

11.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

12.

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

13.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

16.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

17.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

20.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

21.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

25.

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

26.

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

Hitopadesa

27.

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.

28.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

32.

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

Novalis

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

38.

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

41.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

43.

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

44.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

45.

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

46.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

47.

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

48.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers