Motivational Quotes

Marriage

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Hull, Raymond

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

12.

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

13.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

14.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

15.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

18.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

19.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

20.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

21.

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

Murray, Joe

22.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

25.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

27.

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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

33.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

36.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

37.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

38.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Duncan, Isadora

43.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

44.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

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.

46.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

47.

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

Victoria, Queen

48.

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

Balzac, Honore De

49.

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

Myers, Cecil