Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

10.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

11.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

12.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

14.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

15.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

17.

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

Elizabeth I

18.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

20.

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

Peter Blake

21.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

25.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

26.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

30.

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

Myers, Cecil

31.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

32.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

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

Rooney, Mickey

38.

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

Landers, Ann

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Eucharista Ward

43.

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

Samuel, Herbert

44.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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.

47.

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

Harrison, Jane

48.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

49.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

50.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green