Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Maurois, Andre

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

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

10.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

11.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

12.

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

13.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

14.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

16.

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

17.

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

Ruckett

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Smalley, Gary

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

24.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

26.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

28.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

29.

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

30.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

31.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

36.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

37.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

40.

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

Bundy, Peg

41.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

42.

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

43.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

44.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

48.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

49.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

50.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.