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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

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

Hesiod

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

Wilson, Earl

14.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

15.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

18.

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

19.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Sunday, Billy

21.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

23.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

26.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

27.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Sydney

30.

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

31.

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

Dave Meurer

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

34.

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

35.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

38.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

39.

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

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

46.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

47.

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

Mickey Rooney

48.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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