Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Novalis

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

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Landers, Ann

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Byron, Lord

10.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

14.

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

Duncan, Isadora

15.

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

16.

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

Samuel, Herbert

17.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

20.

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.

21.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

22.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

25.

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

Key, Ellen

26.

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

Young, Brigham

27.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

Updike, John

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

35.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Ford, Richard

38.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

39.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

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

Maurois, Andre

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.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

47.

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

Graham, James

48.

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.