Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, German

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

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Irving, Washington

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

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

10.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

11.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

13.

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

Duncan, Isadora

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

18.

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

Lennon, John

19.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

20.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

21.

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.

Fielding, Henry

22.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

23.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Victoria, Queen

26.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

27.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

30.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Bundy, Peg

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Chopin, Daniel

38.

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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

40.

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.

41.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

42.

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

Rowland, Helen

43.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

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

45.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

47.

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

Rita Rudner

48.

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

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

Sondheim, Stephen