Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

14.

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

15.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Key, Ellen

17.

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.

18.

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

Bennett, Jill

19.

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

20.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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

24.

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

Dave Meurer

25.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

26.

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

Kinison, Sam

27.

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

Eucharista Ward

28.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

29.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

30.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

31.

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

32.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

33.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Samuel, Herbert

35.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

36.

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

Lawana Blackwell

37.

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

38.

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

Coward, Noel

39.

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

Andre Maurois

40.

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

41.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

42.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

43.

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

Clarke, W. A.

44.

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

Elizabeth I

45.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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

48.

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

49.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John