Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Byron, Lord

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Mead, Margaret

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

10.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

11.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

12.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Prior, Matthew

14.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

15.

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

17.

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

Winters, Shelley

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

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

Carson, Johnny

20.

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

21.

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

Rudner, Rita

22.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Rita Rudner

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

32.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

33.

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

Halen

34.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

35.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

36.

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

37.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

38.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

41.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

42.

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

Coward, Noel

43.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

45.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

46.

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

Samuel, Herbert

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Hull, Raymond