Motivational Quotes

Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Prior, Matthew

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

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Novalis

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

10.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

11.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

12.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

13.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

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

15.

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

Balzac, Honore De

16.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

17.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

19.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

20.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

21.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

22.

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

Rudner, Rita

23.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

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

Smalley, Gary

26.

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

Peter Blake

27.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

29.

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

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

32.

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

Heine, Heinrich

33.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

35.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

36.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

48.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

49.

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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl