Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Smalley, Gary

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Nick Faldo

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

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Smith, Sydney

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

10.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

12.

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

Mead, Margaret

13.

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

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

16.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

17.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

18.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

19.

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

Farquhar, George

20.

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

22.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

23.

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

Kauffman, Max

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

27.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

28.

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

29.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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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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

33.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

35.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

37.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

43.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

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

45.

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

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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

47.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

48.

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

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

50.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.