Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

10.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

11.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

12.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

13.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

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

15.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

16.

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

17.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

Smalley, Gary

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Miller, Harlan

23.

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

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

25.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

26.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

27.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

28.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

34.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

35.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

38.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

39.

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Bennett, Jill

45.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

46.

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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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

48.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

50.

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

Andre Maurois