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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb, Scottish

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

William Shakespeare

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Winters, Shelley

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

12.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

13.

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

14.

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

17.

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

18.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

Rita Rudner

20.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

21.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Vass, Susan

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Alexander, Shana

26.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

27.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

28.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

29.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

30.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Helen Rowland

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

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

Congreve, William

40.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Myers, Cecil

48.

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

Proverb, German

49.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

50.

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.

Ann Landers