Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

12.

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

13.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

16.

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

17.

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

Duncan, Isadora

18.

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

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Wilson, Earl

21.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

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

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

25.

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

Will Rogers

26.

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

Helen Rowland

27.

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

28.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

30.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

34.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

36.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

38.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

39.

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

40.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

41.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

42.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

Rieux, Madame De

44.

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.

45.

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

Vries, Peter De

46.

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

Miller, Harlan

47.

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

48.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

49.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

50.

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

Luther, Martin