Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ruckett

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Novalis

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Smalley, Gary

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rowland, Helen

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

10.

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

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

14.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

15.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

17.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

21.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

22.

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

Connolly, Cyril

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

26.

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

Skelton, Red

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

36.

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

37.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

43.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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