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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Penn, William

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

10.

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

11.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

12.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

13.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

14.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

15.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

16.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

17.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

18.

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

Spencer, Herbert

19.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

24.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

25.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

Mickey Rooney

27.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

28.

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

Duncan, Isadora

29.

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

Myers, Cecil

30.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

31.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

32.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

33.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

37.

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

Ruckett

38.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

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

Updike, John

41.

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

42.

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

Murray, Joe

43.

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

44.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

45.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

46.

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

Hesiod

47.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

48.

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

Smalley, Gary

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Scottish