Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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.

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

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Thomason, Pauline

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Rieux, Madame De

13.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

14.

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

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Landers, Ann

16.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

17.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

20.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

21.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

22.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

26.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

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

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

38.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

39.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

42.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

43.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

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

47.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

48.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

49.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

50.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole