Motivational Quotes

Marriage

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Barrymore, John

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Eliot, George

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Ford, Richard

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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

Clarke, W. A.

15.

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

16.

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

Ruckett

17.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

18.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

19.

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

Baum, Vicki

20.

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

Wilder, Thornton

21.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

22.

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.

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

28.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

31.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

32.

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

Peter Blake

33.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

34.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

36.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

39.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

40.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Bible

42.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

43.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

47.

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

Updike, John

48.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.