Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

- Ann Landers

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

West, Mae

10.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

11.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

15.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

16.

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

17.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

18.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

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

25.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

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

Smalley, Gary

33.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

34.

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

35.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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.

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

38.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

39.

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

40.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

43.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Rowland, Helen