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

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

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Moliere

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

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

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

14.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

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

Peter Blake

16.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

17.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

18.

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

19.

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

Novalis

20.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

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

26.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

27.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

28.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

33.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

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

35.

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

Elizabeth I

36.

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

Wycherley, William

37.

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

38.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

40.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

41.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

42.

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

Bennett, Jill

43.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

44.

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

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

48.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

49.

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.

50.

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