Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nick Faldo

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

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

10.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Alexander, Shana

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

17.

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

18.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

22.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

25.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

28.

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

29.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

31.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

33.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

34.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

38.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

40.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

41.

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

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

44.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

45.

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

46.

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

47.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

48.

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

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