Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bennett, Jill

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hesiod

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

11.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Irving, Washington

21.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

22.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

23.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

24.

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

25.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

26.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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

Duncan, Isadora

31.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

32.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

33.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

34.

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

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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

36.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

37.

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

Halen

38.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

43.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.