Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

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

Moliere

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

10.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

11.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

23.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

24.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

25.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

28.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

29.

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

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

31.

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

Skelton, Red

32.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

33.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

37.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

38.

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

45.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

46.

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

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

49.

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

Smalley, Gary

50.

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