Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

- Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Maurois, Andre

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

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

Prior, Matthew

14.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

17.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

20.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

Diller, Phyllis

22.

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

Elizabeth I

23.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

25.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

26.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

27.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

28.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

34.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

35.

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

36.

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

Heine, Heinrich

37.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

40.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

41.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

42.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

44.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

45.

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

Sunday, Billy

46.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

47.

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

Mead, Margaret

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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

Winters, Shelley