Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Marriage

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

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

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

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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

10.

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

11.

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

12.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hesiod

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

20.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

23.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

24.

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, German

28.

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

29.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

31.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

36.

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

37.

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

Graham, James

38.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

39.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

40.

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

Farquhar, George

41.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

43.

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

44.

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

Moliere

45.

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

Mead, Margaret

46.

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

Peter Blake

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