Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Samuel, Herbert

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.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Halen

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

Jong, Erica

10.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

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

Farquhar, George

18.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

19.

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

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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.

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

30.

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

31.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

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

Bundy, Peg

33.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

34.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

35.

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

36.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

37.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

38.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

39.

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

40.

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

Helen Rowland

41.

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

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

44.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

46.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

47.

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

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

49.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

50.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar