Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

- Bunker, Archie

Best Quotes about Marriage

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pearl Buck

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Alexander, Shana

10.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

11.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

14.

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

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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

16.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

17.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

18.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

19.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

21.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

22.

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

Smalley, Gary

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Nick Faldo

28.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

29.

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

Dave Meurer

30.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

31.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

32.

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

33.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

34.

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

35.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

36.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

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

Young, Brigham

39.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Sunday, Billy

42.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

46.

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

47.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

48.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

49.

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.

50.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen