Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Helen Rowland

10.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

11.

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

12.

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

Halen

13.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

14.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Bible

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

17.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

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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

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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

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

24.

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

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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

26.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

27.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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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

35.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

36.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

38.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

42.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

43.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

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

Rita Rudner

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney