Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

Peter Blake

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

Penn, William

10.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

11.

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

12.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

15.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

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

Irving, Washington

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Coward, Noel

25.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

26.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

27.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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

29.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

30.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

35.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

39.

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

Elizabeth I

40.

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

41.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

42.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

43.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

44.

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

45.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

46.

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

Pancoast, Mal

47.

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

48.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

49.

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

50.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel