Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Helen Rowland

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kinison, Sam

10.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

13.

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

Rieux, Madame De

14.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

17.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

18.

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

19.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

21.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

22.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

23.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

26.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

27.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

28.

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

Hitopadesa

29.

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

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

32.

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

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

37.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

38.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

39.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

42.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

43.

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

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

47.

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

48.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

49.

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

50.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus