Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

11.

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

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

16.

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

Rieux, Madame De

17.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

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

19.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

20.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

West, Mae

25.

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

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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

27.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

31.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

32.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

33.

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

Peter Blake

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

36.

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

37.

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

Vass, Susan

38.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

39.

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

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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

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

42.

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

Coward, Noel

43.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

44.

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

Wilder, Thornton

45.

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

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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

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

Penn, William

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

49.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.