Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Peter Blake

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Sondheim, Stephen

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

10.

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

11.

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

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

13.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

14.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

15.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

16.

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

17.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

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

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

26.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

27.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

28.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

30.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

31.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

41.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

42.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

43.

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

Duncan, Isadora

44.

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

Winters, Shelley

45.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

46.

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

Rieux, Madame De

47.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

48.

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.

49.

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

Diller, Phyllis

50.

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

Andre Maurois