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

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Graham, James

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

Vass, Susan

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

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Bundy, Peg

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

10.

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

11.

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

Smalley, Gary

12.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

15.

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.

16.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

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

Chopin, Daniel

19.

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

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

21.

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

Congreve, William

22.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

23.

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

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

28.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

29.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

35.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

36.

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

Elizabeth I

37.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

38.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

39.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

40.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

41.

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

42.

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

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

45.

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

Farquhar, George

46.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

Heine, Heinrich

48.

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

Kathleen Norris

49.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

50.

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