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

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

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

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

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Samuel, Herbert

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

10.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

12.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

19.

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.

Landers, Ann

20.

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

Winters, Shelley

21.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

22.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

23.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

26.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

27.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

28.

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

29.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

30.

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

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

37.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

38.

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

39.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

40.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

41.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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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

44.

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

Hull, Raymond

45.

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

Proverb

46.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

47.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

48.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

49.

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

Halen

50.

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