Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Moliere

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mead, Margaret

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

10.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

18.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

21.

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

22.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Sunday, Billy

24.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

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

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

29.

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

30.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

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

34.

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

Wilder, Thornton

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Billings, Josh

37.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

38.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

39.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

43.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

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

Hull, Raymond

45.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.