Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Harrison, Jane

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

Proverb, Scottish

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

10.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

11.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

13.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

14.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

15.

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

Spencer, Herbert

16.

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

17.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

18.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

19.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

20.

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

Elizabeth I

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Mead, Margaret

24.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

30.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

31.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

32.

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

33.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

36.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

37.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

43.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

44.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

45.

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

46.

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

Kinison, Sam

47.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

50.

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