Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Anspacher, Louis K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Connolly, Cyril

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Hitopadesa

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

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

Myers, Cecil

11.

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

Coward, Noel

12.

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

Victoria, Queen

13.

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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

15.

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

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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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

18.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

25.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

26.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

30.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

33.

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

Chopin, Daniel

34.

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

Smalley, Gary

35.

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

36.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

38.

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

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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

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

Novalis

41.

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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Proverb, Scottish

46.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

47.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

48.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

49.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John