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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

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.

Landers, Ann

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Winters, Shelley

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

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

10.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

17.

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

Dave Meurer

18.

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

Hitopadesa

19.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

20.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

21.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

Mickey Rooney

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

28.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

29.

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

Young, Brigham

30.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

31.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

32.

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

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

35.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Kathleen Norris

40.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

41.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

42.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

44.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

46.

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

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

48.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

49.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

West, Mae