Motivational Quotes

Marriage

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Murray, Joe

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rowland, Helen

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb, Spanish

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

10.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

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

16.

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

Updike, John

17.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

19.

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

Proverb, German

20.

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

21.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

25.

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

Skelton, Red

26.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

27.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

28.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

32.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

33.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

34.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

36.

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

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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

38.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

39.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

43.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

44.

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

45.

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

Wycherley, William

46.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

50.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare