Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

13.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Wycherley, William

26.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

27.

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

28.

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

Young, Brigham

29.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

32.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

Victoria, Queen

35.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

37.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

38.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

39.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

43.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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