Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Marriage

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Moliere

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Mead, Margaret

13.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Updike, John

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

18.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

21.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

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

Barrymore, John

27.

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

Rieux, Madame De

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

30.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

Wycherley, William

32.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

33.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

36.

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

Cosby, Bill

37.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

38.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

39.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

40.

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

Bennett, Jill

41.

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

Hull, Raymond

42.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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.

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

Ford, Richard

45.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

48.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.