Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

- Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

10.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Rudner, Rita

17.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

18.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Halen

22.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

28.

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

29.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

30.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

31.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

32.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

33.

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

34.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

35.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

36.

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

Pancoast, Mal

37.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

38.

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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

Sunday, Billy

46.

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

47.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)