Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bundy, Peg

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Helen Rowland

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

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

10.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

13.

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

Ford, Richard

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

16.

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

17.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

18.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

20.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

21.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

22.

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

Farquhar, George

23.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

24.

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

25.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

26.

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

27.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

28.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

Winters, Shelley

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

33.

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

34.

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

Myers, Cecil

35.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

36.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

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

Irving, Washington

38.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

41.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

42.

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

Rieux, Madame De

43.

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

44.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Kathleen Norris

46.

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

Bundy, Peg

47.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.