Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Diller, Phyllis

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

11.

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

Rita Rudner

12.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

13.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

18.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

19.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

20.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

21.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

22.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

23.

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

24.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

25.

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

26.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

27.

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

Sunday, Billy

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

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

Wilder, Thornton

30.

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

31.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Miller, Harlan

33.

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

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

36.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

37.

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

Winters, Shelley

38.

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

39.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Moliere

44.

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

Bundy, Peg

45.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Ford, Richard

48.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

49.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De