Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pearl Buck

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

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

William Shakespeare

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Cosby, Bill

10.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

11.

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

Young, Brigham

12.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Sunday, Billy

14.

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

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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

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

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

Novalis

18.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

20.

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

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

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

Wycherley, William

23.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

25.

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

Winters, Shelley

26.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

33.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

34.

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

35.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Maurois, Andre

39.

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

Victoria, Queen

40.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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

44.

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

Updike, John

45.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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