Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Irving, Washington

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

10.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

18.

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

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

21.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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.

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

24.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

26.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

27.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

28.

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

Young, Brigham

29.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

30.

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

Bible

31.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

32.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

33.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

Halen

35.

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

Bush, Barbara

36.

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

Alexander, Shana

37.

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

38.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

40.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

45.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.