Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesiod

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Landers, Ann

10.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

12.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

13.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

14.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

15.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

16.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Key, Ellen

20.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

22.

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

Nick Faldo

23.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

29.

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

Smalley, Gary

30.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

41.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

42.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

44.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.