Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Skelton, Red

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hesiod

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

Eliot, George

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

Clarke, W. A.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

12.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

13.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

14.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

16.

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

17.

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

Peter Blake

18.

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

19.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

21.

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

22.

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

Kauffman, Max

23.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

24.

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

Updike, John

25.

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

26.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

27.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

31.

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

Elizabeth I

32.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

33.

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

Rooney, Mickey

34.

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

35.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

39.

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

40.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Winters, Shelley

42.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

43.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

44.

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

Sunday, Billy

45.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

46.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

47.

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

Will Rogers

48.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.

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

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck