Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

10.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

Winters, Shelley

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

17.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Heine, Heinrich

19.

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

Duncan, Isadora

20.

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

21.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

22.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

23.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

28.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Nick Faldo

30.

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

31.

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

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

33.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

34.

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

Pearl Buck

35.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

43.

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

44.

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

45.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

Marx, Groucho

47.

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

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril