Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Maurois, Andre

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

12.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

13.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

14.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

15.

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

16.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

17.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Carson, Johnny

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Thomason, Pauline

22.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

23.

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

24.

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

Rieux, Madame De

25.

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

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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

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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

28.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

29.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

31.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

32.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Ford, Richard

36.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

40.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

42.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

44.

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

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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

46.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

47.

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

Rudner, Rita

48.

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

Sunday, Billy

49.

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

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

Halen