Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

12.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Elizabeth I

14.

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

15.

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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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

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

20.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

21.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

22.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

23.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

24.

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

25.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

26.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

29.

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.

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

32.

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

Winters, Shelley

33.

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

Kauffman, Max

34.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

35.

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

Lennon, John

36.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

37.

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

Bundy, Peg

38.

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

Smalley, Gary

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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