Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Updike, John

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

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

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

14.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

17.

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

Clarke, W. A.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Baum, Vicki

20.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

21.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

Thomason, Pauline

33.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

34.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

35.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, Brigham

37.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

40.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

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

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

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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

45.

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

Cosby, Bill

46.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

48.

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

Farquhar, George

49.

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

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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