Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

- Murray, Joe

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Diller, Phyllis

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mae West

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

15.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

21.

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

Nick Faldo

22.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

26.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

29.

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

Wilder, Thornton

30.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

34.

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

Pancoast, Mal

35.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

36.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

37.

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

Young, Brigham

38.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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

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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

41.

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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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

43.

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

Bible

44.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

45.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

46.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

47.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

49.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

50.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin