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

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

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

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

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

10.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

25.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

26.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

27.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

30.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

33.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

35.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

36.

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

Murray, Joe

37.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

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

39.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Helen Rowland

44.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.