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

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Byron, Lord

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Key, Ellen

10.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

11.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

16.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

18.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

19.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

20.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

24.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Prior, Matthew

27.

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.

Landers, Ann

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

32.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

33.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

39.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

Clarke, W. A.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

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

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

46.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

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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

49.

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

50.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De