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

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Wycherley, William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb

10.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

11.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

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

Graham, James

13.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

15.

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

16.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

18.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

27.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

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

Byron, Lord

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

33.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

34.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

36.

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

Billings, Josh

37.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

38.

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

39.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

43.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

44.

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

Congreve, William

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

47.

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

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

49.

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

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane