Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dupuy, Alexis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Bundy, Peg

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

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

Hesiod

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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.

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

Chopin, Daniel

11.

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

Knowles, F. M.

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

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

Congreve, William

14.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

16.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

20.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

21.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

22.

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

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

29.

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

Peter Blake

30.

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

Ford, Richard

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

33.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

34.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

35.

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

36.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

37.

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

Wilson, Earl

38.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

39.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

40.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

41.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

42.

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

West, Mae

43.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

44.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

45.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

47.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

48.

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

49.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

50.

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.