Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rita Rudner

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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

Hitopadesa

15.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

20.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Lawana Blackwell

23.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

24.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

25.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

29.

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

30.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

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

Chopin, Daniel

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Prior, Matthew

35.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

Kathleen Norris

39.

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

Rita Rudner

40.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

44.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

45.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

46.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

Vass, Susan

50.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril