Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

16.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

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

Moliere

18.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

21.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

25.

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

Nick Faldo

26.

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

27.

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

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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

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

30.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Young, Brigham

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

33.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Bible

36.

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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.