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

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

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

Congreve, William

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

13.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

14.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

18.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

21.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

22.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

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

26.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

27.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

28.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Halen

31.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

32.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

33.

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

Farquhar, George

34.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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

38.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

Baum, Vicki

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

43.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

44.

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

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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

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

Vries, Peter De

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

49.

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

Proverb, German