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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Coward, Noel

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

Wycherley, William

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

12.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

13.

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

Kathleen Norris

14.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

15.

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

16.

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

Updike, John

17.

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

Mickey Rooney

18.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

21.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

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

Heine, Heinrich

23.

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

Kauffman, Max

24.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

25.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

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

Key, Ellen

27.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

32.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

35.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

36.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

37.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

38.

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

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

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

41.

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

Mead, Margaret

42.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

45.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

48.

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

Marx, Groucho

49.

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

Bennett, Jill

50.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose