Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

- Hunt, Morton

Best Quotes about Marriage

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Samuel, Herbert

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bundy, Peg

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

13.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Heine, Heinrich

15.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

21.

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

22.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

23.

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

Wilson, Earl

24.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

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.

26.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

27.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

29.

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

Chopin, Daniel

30.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

38.

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

Rita Rudner

39.

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

40.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

42.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

43.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

46.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

47.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

48.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

50.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De