Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Rita Rudner

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

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

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

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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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

17.

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

Penn, William

18.

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

Halen

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

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

Sunday, Billy

22.

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

Hitopadesa

23.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

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

25.

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

Moliere

26.

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

27.

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

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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

Mickey Rooney

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

Rita Rudner

31.

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

32.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

33.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

34.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

35.

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

Helen Rowland

36.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

37.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Novalis

39.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

41.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Dave Meurer

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

49.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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