Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dave Meurer

Best Quotes about Marriage

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 is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Nick Faldo

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

10.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

11.

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

Moliere

12.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

13.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

17.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

21.

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.

22.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

24.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

25.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

26.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

27.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

28.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

31.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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

35.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

36.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

37.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Key, Ellen

42.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

43.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

44.

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

45.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

46.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

47.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

48.

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

Graham, James

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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