Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

William Shakespeare

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.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

11.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

12.

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

Murray, Joe

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

16.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

18.

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

19.

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

Diller, Phyllis

20.

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

Young, Brigham

21.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

22.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

23.

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

Hull, Raymond

24.

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

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

28.

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

29.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

30.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

42.

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

43.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

44.

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

45.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

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.

47.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.