Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Bible

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

10.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

12.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb

15.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Landers, Ann

19.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

20.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

22.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

23.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

26.

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

Pearl Buck

27.

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.

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Sunday, Billy

31.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

32.

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

Hitopadesa

33.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

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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

36.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

38.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

40.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

41.

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

Duncan, Isadora

42.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

43.

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

44.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

45.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Prior, Matthew

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