Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Novalis

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

13.

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

14.

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

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

17.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

18.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

19.

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

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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.

Landers, Ann

22.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

23.

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

24.

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

25.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

31.

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

Elizabeth I

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

35.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

37.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

38.

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.

39.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

40.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

42.

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

Baskins

43.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

44.

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

Miller, Harlan

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

49.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

50.

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