Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Smalley, Gary

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

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

Mae West

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

Heine, Heinrich

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

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.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

12.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

16.

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

17.

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

Irving, Washington

18.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

19.

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

20.

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

Novalis

21.

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

Samuel, Herbert

22.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

23.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

24.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

25.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

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.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

30.

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

31.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Rudner, Rita

35.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

36.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

42.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

43.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

44.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

47.

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.

48.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

49.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

50.

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