Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Allen, Woody

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

10.

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

Vries, Peter De

11.

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

Marx, Groucho

12.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

13.

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

14.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

15.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

18.

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

19.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

20.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Pearl Buck

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

31.

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

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

Knowles, F. M.

34.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Farquhar, George

37.

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

38.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

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

Rudner, Rita

40.

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

Miller, Harlan

41.

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

Vass, Susan

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

46.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George