Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Jong, Erica

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

10.

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

11.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

12.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

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

14.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

15.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

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

23.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

24.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

27.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

28.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

31.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

32.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Kinison, Sam

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Mickey Rooney

41.

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

42.

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

Ruckett

43.

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

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

46.

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

Peter Blake

47.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

49.

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

Proverb, Scottish

50.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson