Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

3.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

4.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

5.

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

Irving, Washington

6.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

Moliere

8.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

9.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Kathleen Norris

11.

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

Chopin, Daniel

12.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Bennett, Jill

16.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

17.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

18.

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

Skelton, Red

19.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

22.

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

23.

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

Graham, James

24.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

25.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

27.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

28.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

29.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

30.

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

31.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

32.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

33.

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

34.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

35.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

36.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Victoria, Queen

38.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

39.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

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

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

43.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

47.

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

Rieux, Madame De

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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