Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Andre Maurois

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

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

11.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

12.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

16.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

21.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

22.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

23.

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

24.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

25.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

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

27.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

31.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

32.

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

Mickey Rooney

33.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

34.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Wilder, Thornton

39.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

40.

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

Knowles, F. M.

41.

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.

42.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

43.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

47.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

48.

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

49.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De