Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Thomason, Pauline

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Mead, Margaret

13.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

22.

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

Baum, Vicki

23.

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

Smalley, Gary

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Kauffman, Max

27.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

28.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

30.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

33.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

34.

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

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

37.

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

Sunday, Billy

38.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

39.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

40.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

41.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

42.

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

43.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

44.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

47.

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

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

49.

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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel