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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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.

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

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

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Bush, Barbara

11.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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.

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

17.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

18.

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

19.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

20.

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

21.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

22.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

23.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

31.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

32.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

33.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

34.

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

Kinison, Sam

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

40.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

41.

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

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

43.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

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

46.

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

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.

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

49.

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

Rieux, Madame De

50.

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

Billings, Josh