Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bible

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Graham, James

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Myers, Cecil

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

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

11.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

13.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

14.

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

15.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Pearl Buck

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

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

20.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

23.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

25.

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.

26.

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

Irving, Washington

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Hull, Raymond

31.

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

32.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

37.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

38.

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

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

41.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

42.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

43.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

44.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

45.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

46.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

47.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles