Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wilde, Oscar

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Maurois, Andre

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

13.

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

14.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

15.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

18.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

19.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

20.

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.

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

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

23.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

24.

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

25.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

26.

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

27.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

28.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

29.

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

Baum, Vicki

30.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

31.

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

32.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

37.

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

Rudner, Rita

38.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

41.

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

Nick Faldo

42.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

43.

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

Harrison, Jane

44.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Samuel, Herbert

46.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

47.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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