Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Prior, Matthew

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

Clarke, W. A.

12.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

13.

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

14.

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

Miller, Harlan

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

16.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

17.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

18.

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

19.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

20.

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

Coward, Noel

21.

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

Duncan, Isadora

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

25.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

33.

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

Landers, Ann

34.

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

Winters, Shelley

35.

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

36.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

40.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

45.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

47.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

48.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

49.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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