Motivational Quotes

Marriage

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Novalis

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Rowland, Helen

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

10.

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

11.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

12.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

14.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

15.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

16.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

17.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

18.

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

Halen

19.

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

Samuel, Herbert

20.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

21.

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

22.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

23.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

24.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

25.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

26.

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

Coward, Noel

27.

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

28.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

29.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Baskins

33.

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

Mead, Margaret

34.

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

Wilson, Earl

35.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

36.

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

37.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

38.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

40.

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

41.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

42.

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

Key, Ellen

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis