Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

14.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

15.

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

Carson, Johnny

16.

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

17.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

19.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Samuel, Herbert

21.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

26.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

27.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

31.

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

Harrison, Jane

32.

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

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

35.

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

Vries, Peter De

36.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

37.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

38.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

44.

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

45.

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

Vries, Peter De

46.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

47.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

48.

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

49.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie