Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prior, Matthew

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb

10.

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

Nick Faldo

11.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

13.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

14.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

16.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

18.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

19.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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

24.

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

25.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Ford, Richard

29.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

30.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

31.

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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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

33.

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

Landers, Ann

34.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Chopin, Daniel

38.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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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