Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Baum, Vicki

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Clarke, W. A.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Ford, Richard

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

11.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

12.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

13.

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

Miller, Harlan

14.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

15.

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.

16.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

19.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

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

Graham, James

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

29.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

30.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

33.

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

Skelton, Red

34.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

35.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

36.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

37.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

41.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

42.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

Prior, Matthew

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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.

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

Coward, Noel

50.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish