Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Proverb

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Knowles, F. M.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

10.

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

11.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

12.

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

Clarke, W. A.

13.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

24.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

25.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

29.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

30.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

31.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

32.

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

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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

34.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

35.

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

Rudner, Rita

36.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

37.

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

Winters, Shelley

38.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

39.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Baskins

42.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

44.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Vass, Susan

49.

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

Mae West

50.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales