Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mead, Margaret

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

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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.

14.

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.

15.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

16.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

18.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

19.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

20.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

21.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Thomason, Pauline

23.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

25.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

28.

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

Helen Rowland

29.

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

Andre Maurois

30.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

31.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

32.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Dave Meurer

37.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

38.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

40.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

41.

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

42.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

48.

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

49.

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

Victoria, Queen

50.

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

Bible