Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Miller, Harlan

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

William Shakespeare

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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

10.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

11.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

12.

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

13.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

14.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

15.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

16.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

17.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

19.

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

Rieux, Madame De

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

30.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

31.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

35.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

39.

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

40.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

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

Key, Ellen

43.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

44.

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

45.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

46.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

48.

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

49.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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