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

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

Spencer, Herbert

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

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

Mae West

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

11.

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

Eucharista Ward

12.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

13.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

14.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

15.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

16.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

17.

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

Heine, Heinrich

18.

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

19.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

20.

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

21.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

22.

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

23.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

25.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

26.

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

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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

28.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

31.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

34.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

35.

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

Thomason, Pauline

36.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

37.

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

Vries, Peter De

38.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

39.

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

Prior, Matthew

40.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

43.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

44.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

46.

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

47.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin