Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Carson, Johnny

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Key, Ellen

12.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

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.

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

Myers, Cecil

17.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Wycherley, William

19.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

20.

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

21.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

22.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

23.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

24.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

25.

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

26.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Updike, John

32.

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

33.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

34.

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

Victoria, Queen

35.

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

Peter Blake

36.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

38.

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

39.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

40.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

42.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Nick Faldo

45.

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

Murray, Joe

46.

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.