Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wilder, Thornton

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Myers, Cecil

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

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

10.

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

11.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Hull, Raymond

15.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

16.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

17.

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

18.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

19.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

23.

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

24.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Harrison, Jane

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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

31.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Winters, Shelley

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

41.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

46.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

47.

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

Proverb