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

Pearl Buck

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

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Elizabeth I

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Hitopadesa

15.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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.

19.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

24.

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

Kathleen Norris

25.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

27.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

28.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

29.

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.

30.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

33.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

34.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

35.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

Sunday, Billy

37.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

41.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

43.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

44.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

47.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

50.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich