Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Rowland, Helen

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

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.

Landers, Ann

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

11.

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

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.

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

14.

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

15.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

17.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Bible

19.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

20.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

21.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

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

23.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

24.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

26.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

27.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

28.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

29.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

30.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

31.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

32.

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.

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.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

35.

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

36.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

37.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

38.

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

Halen

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

41.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

42.

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

Rieux, Madame De

43.

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

Rowland, Helen

44.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

45.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

46.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

48.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

49.

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

Sunday, Billy

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