Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

- Bush, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rieux, Madame De

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Bundy, Peg

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Jong, Erica

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

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

12.

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

Smalley, Gary

13.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Coward, Noel

15.

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

Duncan, Isadora

16.

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

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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

18.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

19.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

20.

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

Vass, Susan

21.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

22.

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

23.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

27.

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

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

31.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

33.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

34.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

35.

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

40.

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

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

47.

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

48.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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