Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Byron, Lord

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

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

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

11.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

Farquhar, George

13.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

16.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

17.

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

Proverb

18.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

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

21.

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

Pancoast, Mal

22.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

23.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

24.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

27.

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

28.

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

Mickey Rooney

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

35.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

36.

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

Ford, Richard

37.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Victoria, Queen

41.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

44.

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

45.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Wilder, Thornton

49.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Landers, Ann