Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

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.

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

10.

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

Smalley, Gary

11.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Kauffman, Max

14.

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

Key, Ellen

15.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

16.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

17.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

18.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

21.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

23.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

24.

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

Halen

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

Mae West

28.

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

29.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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.

33.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

34.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

39.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

40.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

41.

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

Vass, Susan

42.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

43.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

44.

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.

45.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Peter Blake

47.

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

Kathleen Norris

48.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

49.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates