Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Maurois, Andre

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

11.

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

12.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Helen Rowland

16.

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

17.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

18.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

19.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

20.

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

21.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

23.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

24.

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

Murray, Joe

25.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

Kinison, Sam

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

33.

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

Mickey Rooney

34.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

35.

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

36.

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

Moliere

37.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

42.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

49.

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

50.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl