Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Bush, Barbara

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Myers, Cecil

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Young, Brigham

10.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

Vries, Peter De

12.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

13.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

14.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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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

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

20.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

26.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

27.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

28.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

29.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

30.

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

Graham, James

31.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Winters, Shelley

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Chopin, Daniel

38.

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

39.

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

Hull, Raymond

40.

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

Farquhar, George

41.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

42.

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

Halen

43.

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

Wilson, Earl

44.

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

Lawana Blackwell

45.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

48.

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

49.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

50.

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