Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Wilson, Earl

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Sunday, Billy

10.

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

Duncan, Isadora

11.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

12.

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

Prior, Matthew

13.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

14.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

15.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

17.

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

18.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

21.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

22.

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

Eucharista Ward

23.

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

Byron, Lord

24.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

27.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

29.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

30.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

31.

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

32.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

33.

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

Harrison, Jane

34.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

35.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

38.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

41.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

42.

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

Pearl Buck

43.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

44.

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

Halen

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

47.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

48.

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

Proverb

49.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

50.

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