Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Sunday, Billy

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

13.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

14.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

22.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

23.

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

24.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

Nick Faldo

28.

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

Kinison, Sam

29.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

Coward, Noel

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

34.

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

Wilson, Earl

35.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

36.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

37.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Baskins

40.

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

41.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

42.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

43.

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

Mickey Rooney

44.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

45.

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

46.

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

48.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

49.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

50.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris