Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Key, Ellen

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Byron, Lord

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

10.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

11.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

15.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

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

Will Rogers

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

23.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

29.

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.

Ann Landers

30.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

31.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

33.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Rita Rudner

35.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Baskins

37.

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

38.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

39.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

40.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

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

Mickey Rooney

42.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

43.

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

44.

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

Luther, Martin

45.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

46.

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

Andre Maurois

47.

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