Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Maurois, Andre

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

15.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

19.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

27.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

28.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

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

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

32.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

33.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

34.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

35.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

36.

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

37.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

39.

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

40.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

41.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

42.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

43.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

44.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.