Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Wycherley, William

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

Young, Brigham

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

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

Rowland, Helen

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

10.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

11.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

12.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

13.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

14.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Wilson, Earl

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Pearl Buck

24.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Ford, Richard

27.

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.

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

30.

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

31.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

32.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

37.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

39.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

48.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

49.

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

Barrymore, John

50.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre