Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Eliot, George

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Miller, Harlan

10.

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

11.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

12.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

20.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

23.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

24.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

25.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

Duncan, Isadora

28.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

29.

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

30.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

35.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

Congreve, William

37.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

38.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

43.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

44.

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

45.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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