Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Clarke, W. A.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

Skelton, Red

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

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

Prior, Matthew

18.

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

19.

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

Landers, Ann

20.

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

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

24.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

25.

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

Updike, John

26.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

27.

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

28.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

29.

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

Bennett, Jill

30.

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

31.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Ruckett

33.

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

Mead, Margaret

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

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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.

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

44.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

45.

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

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

49.

I married beneath me. All women do.