Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Updike, John

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Alexander, Shana

10.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

11.

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

12.

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

Key, Ellen

13.

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

14.

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

Rita Rudner

15.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

18.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

20.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

23.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

26.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

28.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Landers, Ann

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

35.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

36.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

37.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

38.

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

Moliere

39.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

41.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

42.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

43.

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

Rieux, Madame De

44.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

45.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

46.

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

47.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

48.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Wilson, Earl

50.

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