Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Landers, Ann

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

12.

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

13.

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

Kauffman, Max

14.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

19.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

21.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

22.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

23.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

24.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

25.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

26.

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

Bennett, Jill

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

31.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

37.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

38.

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

39.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

43.

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

Wilson, Earl

44.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

46.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

49.

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