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

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

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

Proverb, German

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

11.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

13.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

18.

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

19.

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

Victoria, Queen

20.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

30.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

31.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

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

37.

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

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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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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.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

41.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

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

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.