Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Coward, Noel

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.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

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

Eucharista Ward

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

12.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

13.

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

Winters, Shelley

14.

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

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

16.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

17.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

18.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

19.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

21.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

22.

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

23.

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

Farquhar, George

24.

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

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

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

Will Rogers

27.

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

Mickey Rooney

28.

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

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

31.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

37.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

40.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

Landers, Ann

42.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

47.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

49.

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.

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

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