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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

10.

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

11.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

12.

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

Nick Faldo

13.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

17.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

Alexander, Shana

20.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

21.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

22.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

26.

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

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

29.

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

Skelton, Red

30.

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

31.

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

Bundy, Peg

32.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

33.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

34.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

35.

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

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

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

Proverb

38.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

43.

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

Coward, Noel

44.

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

45.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

49.

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

50.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin