Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

11.

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

Rita Rudner

12.

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

13.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

14.

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

Ruckett

15.

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

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Nelms, Cynthia

18.

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

Heine, Heinrich

19.

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

Mae West

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

23.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

28.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

29.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

30.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

33.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Bennett, Jill

35.

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

36.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

40.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

41.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.