Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

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

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

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

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

11.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

12.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

Heine, Heinrich

15.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

16.

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

17.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

23.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

24.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Irving, Washington

26.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

27.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Maurois, Andre

30.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

31.

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

Diller, Phyllis

32.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

33.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

35.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

36.

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

Congreve, William

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

40.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

41.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

43.

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

44.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

45.

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

Bundy, Peg

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Helen Rowland

49.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

50.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen