Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Byron, Lord

10.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

11.

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

12.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Proverb

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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

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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

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

23.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

24.

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

Pearl Buck

25.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

28.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

29.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

30.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

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

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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

34.

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

Rita Rudner

35.

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

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

37.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Hitopadesa

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

41.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

42.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

43.

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

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Vries, Peter De

47.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

48.

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

49.

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

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma