Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

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

10.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

11.

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

Rudner, Rita

12.

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

Diller, Phyllis

13.

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.

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

20.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

Elizabeth I

22.

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.

23.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

25.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

28.

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

Samuel, Herbert

29.

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

Bundy, Peg

30.

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

31.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

32.

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

Knowles, F. M.

33.

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

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

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

37.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

38.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

39.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Helen Rowland

43.

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

Kinison, Sam

44.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

49.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat