Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

10.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

11.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Prior, Matthew

15.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

19.

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

20.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

21.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

25.

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

Farquhar, George

26.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

27.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

28.

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

29.

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

31.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

34.

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

Rita Rudner

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

38.

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

39.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

43.

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

44.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

45.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

48.

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

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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.

Landers, Ann

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis