Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

10.

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

11.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

12.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

14.

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

Connolly, Cyril

15.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

16.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

17.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

18.

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

19.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

20.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

21.

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

Winters, Shelley

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

23.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

25.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

32.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

35.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

36.

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

Will Rogers

37.

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

Ruckett

38.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Winters, Shelley

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

42.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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

44.

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

Spencer, Herbert

45.

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

Skelton, Red

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

49.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard