Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Landers, Ann

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Clarke, W. A.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Byron, Lord

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

11.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

12.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

13.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

14.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

15.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

16.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

21.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

22.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Kathleen Norris

26.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

28.

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

29.

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

36.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

37.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

38.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

39.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

40.

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

41.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

42.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

43.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

46.

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

Nick Faldo

47.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

48.

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

49.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

50.

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

Lennon, John