Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Will Rogers

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Hitopadesa

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Wycherley, William

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

12.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

13.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Rita Rudner

16.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

20.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

21.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

22.

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

23.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

24.

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

25.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

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

Proverb

31.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

34.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

35.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

36.

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

37.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

38.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

39.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

44.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

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

46.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Skelton, Red

48.

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

Young, Brigham

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