Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Peter Blake

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

Proverb

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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.

11.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

12.

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

13.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

14.

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

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

Baum, Vicki

17.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

21.

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

Key, Ellen

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

24.

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

25.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

26.

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

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

31.

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

32.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

Connolly, Cyril

34.

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

Jong, Erica

35.

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

Winters, Shelley

36.

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

Balzac, Honore De

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

43.

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.

Ann Landers

44.

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

45.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

47.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

49.

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

Halen

50.

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