Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

- Chantal Saperstein

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jong, Erica

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

Eliot, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

10.

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

Baum, Vicki

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

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

Murray, Joe

15.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

17.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

18.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

19.

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

Kinison, Sam

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

23.

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

Nick Faldo

24.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

25.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

26.

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

Sunday, Billy

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

29.

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

30.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

31.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

32.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Pearl Buck

36.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

39.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

44.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Winters, Shelley

46.

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

Updike, John

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

49.

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

50.

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