Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

- Mcginley, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hitopadesa

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Rieux, Madame De

10.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

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

Kathleen Norris

13.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

14.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

16.

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

17.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

18.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

19.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

20.

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

Mead, Margaret

21.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

22.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

26.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Farquhar, George

28.

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

Wilder, Thornton

29.

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

Smalley, Gary

30.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

Hull, Raymond

32.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

34.

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

35.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

36.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

37.

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

Will Rogers

38.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

40.

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

41.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

42.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

43.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

44.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

45.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

46.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

47.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

48.

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein