Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

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

Peter Blake

13.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

17.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

18.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

19.

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

20.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

21.

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

22.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

25.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

26.

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

28.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

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

30.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

36.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

37.

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

Young, Brigham

38.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

39.

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

Baskins

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

41.

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

Helen Rowland

42.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

43.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Pancoast, Mal

47.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

49.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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