Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Marx, Groucho

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Penn, William

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

17.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

18.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

19.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

20.

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

21.

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

22.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

28.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

29.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

30.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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

32.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

35.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

36.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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

38.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

39.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

43.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

44.

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

Murray, Joe

45.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

47.

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

Victoria, Queen

48.

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.

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

Carson, Johnny

50.

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

Proverb