Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

- Kathleen Norris

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Halen

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

Duncan, Isadora

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Vries, Peter De

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

10.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Barrymore, John

15.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

16.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

17.

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

Congreve, William

18.

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

19.

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

Mickey Rooney

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

22.

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

23.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

24.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

25.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

27.

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

Chopin, Daniel

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Pearl Buck

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

33.

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

34.

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

Miller, Harlan

35.

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

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Baum, Vicki

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Coward, Noel

47.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

48.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

49.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

50.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian