Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Ford, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elizabeth I

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

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

Irving, Washington

19.

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.

20.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Myers, Cecil

22.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

23.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

24.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

Kinison, Sam

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

33.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Miller, Harlan

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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

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

39.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

40.

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

Victoria, Queen

41.

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

Vass, Susan

42.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

43.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

45.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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