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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

10.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

15.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

16.

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

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

18.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

19.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

20.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

21.

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

22.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

23.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Smalley, Gary

26.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

28.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

29.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

West, Mae

35.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Kinison, Sam

39.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

40.

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.

41.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

42.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

46.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

48.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

49.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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