Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

- Baskins

Best Quotes about Marriage

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Mead, Margaret

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

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

12.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

13.

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

14.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

15.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

16.

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.

17.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

21.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

24.

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

25.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

32.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

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

34.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

35.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

41.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Penn, William

43.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

45.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

46.

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

Lennon, John

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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