Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Myers, Cecil

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Harrison, Jane

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Barrymore, John

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

13.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

16.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

17.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

19.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

20.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

23.

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

Moliere

24.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Farquhar, George

26.

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

Eucharista Ward

27.

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

Bible

28.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

31.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

32.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

33.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

34.

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

35.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

36.

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

37.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

39.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

40.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

41.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

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

Murray, Joe

44.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

45.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

46.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

47.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

49.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

50.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De