Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Eliot, George

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

Carson, Johnny

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Bundy, Peg

10.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Wilson, Earl

13.

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

14.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Andre Maurois

19.

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

20.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

21.

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

22.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

23.

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

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Samuel, Herbert

28.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

29.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

33.

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

Ford, Richard

34.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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.

37.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

41.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

42.

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

43.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

44.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

45.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

49.

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

Halen

50.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord