Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Winters, Shelley

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

12.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

14.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

15.

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

Kauffman, Max

16.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

18.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

19.

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.

20.

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

Irving, Washington

21.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

22.

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

23.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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.

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

26.

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

27.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

28.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

29.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

30.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

32.

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

33.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

37.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

38.

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

39.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

41.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

42.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

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

44.

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

Eucharista Ward

45.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

48.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin