Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Diller, Phyllis

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Mae West

10.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

11.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

14.

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

15.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

16.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

17.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Andre Maurois

20.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Scottish

23.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

24.

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

Skelton, Red

25.

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.

26.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

27.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

28.

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

29.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

30.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

31.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

35.

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

Rooney, Mickey

36.

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

37.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

38.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

39.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

40.

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

Updike, John

41.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

42.

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

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

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

45.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Victoria, Queen

47.

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

Proverb, German

48.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.