Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

12.

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

13.

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

Ruckett

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Jong, Erica

17.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

22.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

24.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

29.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

30.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

31.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

34.

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.

35.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Lennon, John

38.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

41.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

42.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

43.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

44.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

45.

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

Victoria, Queen

46.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

47.

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.

48.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

49.

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

Rowland, Helen

50.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma