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

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

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

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

10.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

11.

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

12.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

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

Murray, Joe

15.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

17.

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

Moliere

18.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

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.

20.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

21.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

22.

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

Luther, Martin

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

29.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

30.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Ford, Richard

33.

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

Rita Rudner

34.

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

Jong, Erica

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

37.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

38.

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

Novalis

39.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

40.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

41.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

42.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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

44.

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

45.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

46.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

50.

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