Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kathleen Norris

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

11.

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

Halen

12.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

13.

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

14.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

19.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Murray, Joe

23.

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.

24.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Key, Ellen

26.

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

Coward, Noel

27.

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

28.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

31.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

32.

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

33.

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

34.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

35.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

36.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

37.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

38.

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

Hitopadesa

39.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

40.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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