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

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

West, Mae

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Hitopadesa

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

10.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

11.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

12.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

13.

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

14.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

16.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Congreve, William

19.

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

Carson, Johnny

20.

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

Duncan, Isadora

21.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

22.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

23.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

25.

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

Bennett, Jill

26.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

27.

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

28.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

29.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

33.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

34.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

35.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

36.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

38.

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

Proverb

39.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

40.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

41.

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

42.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

43.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

44.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

45.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

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.

50.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German