Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Marriage

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Prior, Matthew

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

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

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

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

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

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

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Peter Blake

16.

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

Myers, Cecil

17.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

18.

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.

19.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

23.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

24.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Sunday, Billy

28.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

29.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

30.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

33.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

34.

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

Clarke, W. A.

35.

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

36.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

37.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

38.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

40.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

44.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

45.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

47.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

48.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

49.

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Eucharista Ward