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

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

Rita Rudner

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

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

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

Bible

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Nick Faldo

12.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Prior, Matthew

17.

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

Wycherley, William

18.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

19.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

Chopin, Daniel

24.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

25.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

29.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

30.

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

31.

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

32.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Dave Meurer

39.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.