Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Billings, Josh

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

10.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

11.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

12.

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

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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

14.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

15.

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

Baskins

16.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

19.

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

20.

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

Heine, Heinrich

21.

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

Graham, James

22.

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

Farquhar, George

23.

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

24.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

25.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

29.

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

Chopin, Daniel

30.

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

31.

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

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

35.

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

West, Mae

36.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

39.

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

40.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

41.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

42.

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

43.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

44.

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

Prior, Matthew

45.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

46.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

47.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

48.

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

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

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis