Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

- Nick Faldo

Best Quotes about Marriage

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Winters, Shelley

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

18.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

20.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

21.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

22.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

29.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

30.

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

Bible

31.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

32.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

40.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

41.

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

Eucharista Ward

42.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Mickey Rooney

46.

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

48.

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

Novalis

49.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

50.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich