Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Novalis

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Rita Rudner

10.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

11.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

12.

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

Mickey Rooney

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

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

Vass, Susan

15.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

18.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

19.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

20.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

21.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

22.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

23.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

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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

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Victoria, Queen

34.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

35.

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

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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