Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Marx, Groucho

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

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

10.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

11.

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

12.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

14.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

15.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

17.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

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

20.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

21.

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

Mae West

22.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

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

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

29.

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

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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

32.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

33.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

37.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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

40.

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

Novalis

41.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

44.

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

Bennett, Jill

45.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Prior, Matthew

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

49.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich