Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Peter Blake

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Novalis

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

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Kathleen Norris

11.

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

12.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

13.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

14.

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

15.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

16.

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

Samuel, Herbert

17.

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

Wilder, Thornton

18.

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

19.

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

Victoria, Queen

20.

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

21.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

26.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

32.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

33.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

35.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

37.

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.

38.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

39.

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

Young, Brigham

40.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

43.

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

44.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein