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

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

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Pancoast, Mal

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

10.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

12.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

13.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

14.

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

15.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

16.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Thomason, Pauline

24.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Nick Faldo

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

Heine, Heinrich

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill