Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Samuel, Herbert

12.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

13.

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

Elizabeth I

14.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

15.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

16.

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

Cosby, Bill

17.

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

18.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

20.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

21.

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

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

24.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

28.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

29.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

30.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

31.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

33.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

35.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

36.

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

Murray, Joe

37.

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

Updike, John

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

39.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

40.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

41.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Ruckett

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.