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

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Proverb, German

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

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

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

10.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

12.

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

13.

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

Samuel, Herbert

14.

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

Ford, Richard

15.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

20.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

21.

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

Smalley, Gary

22.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Graham, James

24.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

27.

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

Prior, Matthew

28.

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

Proverb

29.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

32.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

34.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

36.

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

Will Rogers

37.

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

Winters, Shelley

38.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

39.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

44.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

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

48.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

49.

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

50.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb