Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

10.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

12.

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

13.

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

Connolly, Cyril

14.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

20.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

24.

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

Chopin, Daniel

25.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

26.

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

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

28.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

29.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

30.

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

Andre Maurois

31.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

32.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

38.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

41.

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

Mead, Margaret

42.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

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

Farquhar, George

44.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

45.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

49.

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

50.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De