Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Marriage

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Baskins

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

11.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Landers, Ann

14.

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

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

17.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

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

Helen Rowland

19.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

20.

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

21.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

22.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

23.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

24.

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

Hitopadesa

25.

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

26.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Scottish

30.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

34.

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

35.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

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

Peter Blake

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

41.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

42.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

44.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

45.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

46.

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

47.

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

Chopin, Daniel

48.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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

Harrison, Jane