Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Kinison, Sam

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Kathleen Norris

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

Nick Faldo

13.

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

14.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

15.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

16.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

17.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

19.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

20.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

21.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

22.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

23.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

26.

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

Harrison, Jane

27.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

30.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Heine, Heinrich

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

35.

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

Vass, Susan

36.

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

Halen

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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.

39.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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.

44.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

45.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert