Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

10.

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

Ruckett

11.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Wilder, Thornton

14.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kathleen Norris

16.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

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

Congreve, William

19.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

20.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Smalley, Gary

22.

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 world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

26.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

27.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

29.

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

30.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

31.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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.

33.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

34.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

35.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

39.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

40.

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

41.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Diller, Phyllis

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John