Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

- Hunt, Morton

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Graham, James

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

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Key, Ellen

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.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

14.

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

15.

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

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

Winters, Shelley

17.

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

Halen

18.

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.

19.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

20.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

25.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

26.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Wilson, Earl

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

30.

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

31.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

32.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

Coward, Noel

36.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

43.

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

Penn, William

44.

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

45.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

46.

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

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

Harrison, Jane

49.

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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.