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

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb

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 the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Harrison, Jane

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

12.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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.

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

15.

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

16.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

17.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

18.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

19.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

20.

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

Sunday, Billy

21.

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

22.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

24.

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

Mead, Margaret

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

27.

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

28.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

29.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

30.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

32.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

38.

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

Smalley, Gary

39.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

40.

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

41.

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

42.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

43.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

45.

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

Baum, Vicki

46.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

47.

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

48.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

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

Proverb, Scottish

50.

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

Vass, Susan