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 the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Smalley, Gary

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Mccant, Jerry

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Proverb

10.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

12.

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

13.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Nick Faldo

15.

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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

19.

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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

23.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

24.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

25.

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

26.

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

Kathleen Norris

27.

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

28.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

29.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

30.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

32.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Congreve, William

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

37.

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

38.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

42.

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

43.

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

Rita Rudner

44.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Ford, Richard

47.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

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