Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bundy, Peg

Best Quotes about Marriage

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Graham, James

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

10.

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

11.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

12.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

13.

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.

14.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

20.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

21.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

22.

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

23.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

25.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

26.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

31.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

32.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

33.

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

Will Rogers

34.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

35.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

36.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

37.

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

38.

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

Vass, Susan

39.

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

40.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

41.

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

Kathleen Norris

42.

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

43.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

44.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

45.

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

Halen

46.

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

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

Proverb

49.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

50.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.