Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baskins

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Harrison, Jane

10.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

11.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

13.

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

Diller, Phyllis

14.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

16.

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

Hitopadesa

17.

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

Landers, Ann

18.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Murray, Joe

20.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

21.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

22.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

23.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

24.

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

25.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

26.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

27.

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

Farquhar, George

28.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

30.

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

31.

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

Andre Maurois

32.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Samuel, Herbert

35.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

36.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

40.

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.

41.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

43.

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

Prior, Matthew

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

47.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.