Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Alexander, Shana

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Vass, Susan

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

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

10.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

13.

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

Heine, Heinrich

14.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

15.

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

Hitopadesa

16.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

17.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

18.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

19.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

20.

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

Balzac, Honore De

21.

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

22.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

23.

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

Coward, Noel

24.

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

Graham, James

25.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

28.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

29.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

32.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

33.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Lennon, John

37.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

40.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

41.

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

42.

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

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

44.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

47.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

48.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

49.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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