Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Young, Brigham

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

12.

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

Bennett, Jill

13.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

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.

Landers, Ann

17.

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

Skelton, Red

18.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

23.

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

Hitopadesa

24.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

25.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

28.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

29.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

32.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

33.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

34.

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

Bible

35.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Nick Faldo

44.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

45.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

46.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

48.

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

Mae West

49.

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

Helen Rowland

50.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish