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

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

Skelton, Red

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

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

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.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Samuel, Herbert

15.

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

Maurois, Andre

16.

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

17.

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

Rieux, Madame De

18.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Congreve, William

21.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

25.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Mead, Margaret

30.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

31.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

32.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Bundy, Peg

35.

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

Myers, Cecil

36.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

37.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Nick Faldo

42.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

43.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

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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

46.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

47.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

48.

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

Hitopadesa

49.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La