Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Byron, Lord

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mae West

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Mickey Rooney

13.

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

14.

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

Eucharista Ward

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

16.

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

17.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

18.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

19.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

20.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

21.

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

22.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

24.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

25.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

29.

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.

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

32.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

33.

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

34.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

35.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

37.

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

Farquhar, George

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

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

40.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Thomason, Pauline

49.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

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