Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Nelms, Cynthia

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

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

11.

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

Hitopadesa

12.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

13.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

14.

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

Spencer, Herbert

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

16.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

18.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

19.

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

Rieux, Madame De

20.

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

21.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

24.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

25.

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.

26.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

27.

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

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.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

32.

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

33.

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

Wycherley, William

34.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

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

36.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

37.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

39.

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

40.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

41.

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

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

44.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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