Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Proverb

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

10.

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

11.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

12.

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

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

15.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

18.

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

19.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

20.

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

Key, Ellen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Myers, Cecil

25.

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

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Jong, Erica

28.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

31.

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

Bush, Barbara

32.

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

33.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

34.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Bible

36.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

Maurois, Andre

39.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

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

41.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

46.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

48.

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

49.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von