Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

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

4.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

5.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

8.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

9.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

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

11.

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

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

14.

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

Maurois, Andre

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

17.

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

18.

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

Mead, Margaret

19.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Congreve, William

22.

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

Myers, Cecil

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

28.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

29.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Vass, Susan

31.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

33.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

36.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

37.

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

38.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

39.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

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

Jong, Erica

43.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

44.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

45.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

47.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

48.

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

49.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

50.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.