Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

- Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Proverb, German

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Proverb

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

10.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

11.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Graham, James

14.

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

Irving, Washington

15.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

16.

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

Elizabeth I

17.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

19.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

21.

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

Kauffman, Max

22.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

23.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

25.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

27.

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

28.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

29.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

31.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

32.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

33.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

34.

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

Samuel, Herbert

36.

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

Young, Brigham

37.

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

Novalis

38.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

39.

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

40.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

41.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

42.

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

Pearl Buck

43.

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

Nick Faldo

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

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

Duncan, Isadora

49.

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

50.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.