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

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Baum, Vicki

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

Billings, Josh

10.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

11.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

12.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

16.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

20.

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

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

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

23.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

24.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

25.

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

26.

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

29.

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

30.

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

Miller, Harlan

31.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

33.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

34.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

35.

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

36.

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

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Ford, Richard

38.

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

39.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

42.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

43.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

46.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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

48.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

49.

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

Vries, Peter De

50.

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