Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

- Hunt, Morton

Best Quotes about Marriage

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Hunt, Morton

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

11.

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

12.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

15.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

17.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

18.

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

19.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

21.

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

Kauffman, Max

22.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

23.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Farquhar, George

29.

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

30.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

34.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

35.

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

36.

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

Wilson, Earl

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

40.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

41.

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

42.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

43.

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

44.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

45.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

46.

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.

47.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

49.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

50.

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