Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

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

Coward, Noel

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Blake

10.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

11.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

12.

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

13.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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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

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

18.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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.

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

Novalis

21.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

22.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

24.

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

Young, Brigham

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

27.

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Mead, Margaret

29.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

35.

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

36.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

37.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

38.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

39.

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.

40.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

41.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

45.

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

46.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

48.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Vries, Peter De

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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