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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Bible

12.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

16.

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

17.

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

23.

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

Wycherley, William

24.

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

25.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

26.

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

Elizabeth I

27.

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

28.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

32.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Vries, Peter De

38.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

40.

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

Sunday, Billy

41.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

42.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

43.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

44.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Allen, Woody

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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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier