Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Andre Maurois

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

10.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Penn, William

12.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

13.

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

14.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

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.

16.

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

Peter Blake

17.

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

18.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

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.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

21.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

22.

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

23.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

27.

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

Nick Faldo

28.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

29.

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

30.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

31.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

35.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

36.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

37.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

38.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

39.

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

40.

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

Rieux, Madame De

41.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

42.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

43.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

47.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

49.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

50.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert