Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Chatterton, Thomas

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

10.

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.

11.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

16.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

17.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

Bundy, Peg

19.

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.

20.

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

Coward, Noel

21.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

23.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

24.

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

25.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

27.

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

28.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

29.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

37.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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

42.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

43.

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

Mae West

44.

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

Helen Rowland

45.

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

46.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

47.

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

Carson, Johnny

48.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

49.

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

Wilson, Earl

50.

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