Motivational Quotes

Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rieux, Madame De

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Murray, Joe

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Victoria, Queen

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

10.

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

11.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

12.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

13.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

14.

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

15.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Eucharista Ward

17.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

19.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

20.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

21.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

24.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

25.

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

Barrymore, John

26.

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

Andre Maurois

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

29.

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

Spencer, Herbert

30.

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

Skelton, Red

31.

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

32.

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

Sunday, Billy

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

35.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

38.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

39.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

40.

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

Bible

41.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

43.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

44.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

45.

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

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

50.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max