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

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

Allen, Woody

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Helen Rowland

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.

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

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

William Shakespeare

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Pearl Buck

10.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

16.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

17.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

18.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

19.

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

Landers, Ann

20.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

21.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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.

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

24.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Rooney, Mickey

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Myers, Cecil

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

36.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

37.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

38.

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

Victoria, Queen

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

40.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

41.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

42.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

43.

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

Bundy, Peg

44.

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

West, Mae

45.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

46.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides