Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Lennon, John

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Smith, Sydney

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

15.

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

Rooney, Mickey

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Kathleen Norris

19.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

20.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

21.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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.

Landers, Ann

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

24.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

30.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

31.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

33.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

34.

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

35.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

37.

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

38.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

39.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

43.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

44.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

45.

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

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

Prior, Matthew

47.

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

Andre Maurois

48.

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

49.

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

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich