Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

- Kathleen Norris

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

10.

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

11.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

12.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

13.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

14.

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

15.

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

16.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Vries, Peter De

18.

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

19.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Alexander, Shana

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Young, Brigham

29.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

30.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

31.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

36.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

37.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

39.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

40.

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

Wilder, Thornton

41.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

42.

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

43.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

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

Thomason, Pauline

45.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.