Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Ruckett

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

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

Graham, James

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Eucharista Ward

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

10.

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

11.

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

12.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

13.

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

Smalley, Gary

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

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.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

20.

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

Young, Brigham

21.

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

22.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

23.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

27.

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

Barrymore, John

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Coward, Noel

34.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

35.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

Duncan, Isadora

37.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

40.

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

41.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

42.

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

Miller, Harlan

43.

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

Rooney, Mickey

44.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

49.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

50.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De