Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Marriage

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Smalley, Gary

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

10.

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

11.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

12.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

14.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

15.

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

16.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

25.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

26.

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.

27.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

28.

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

Hull, Raymond

29.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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

32.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

33.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

34.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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

Irving, Washington

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

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

Vries, Peter De

50.

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

William Shakespeare