Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Landers, Ann

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Victoria, Queen

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.

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

12.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

13.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

14.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

15.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

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

17.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

18.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

19.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Kathleen Norris

21.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

22.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

26.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

27.

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

28.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

29.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

32.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

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

Prior, Matthew

35.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Bible

37.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

45.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

46.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

47.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

48.

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

49.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

50.

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

Nick Faldo