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

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Baskins

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

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

13.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

14.

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

15.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Eucharista Ward

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

20.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Helen Rowland

23.

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

24.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

28.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

29.

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

30.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

31.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

32.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

33.

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

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

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

Graham, James

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

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

Bush, Barbara

39.

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

Alexander, Shana

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

Maurois, Andre

42.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

43.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

45.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

48.

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

Heine, Heinrich

49.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Farquhar, George