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

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Peter Blake

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

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.

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

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Proverb, German

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

11.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

12.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

13.

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

14.

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

Barrymore, John

15.

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

16.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

17.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

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

Victoria, Queen

22.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

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

Samuel, Herbert

27.

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.

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

29.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

33.

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

34.

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

Hesiod

35.

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

Coward, Noel

36.

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

Penn, William

37.

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

Allen, Woody

38.

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

39.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

42.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

43.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

44.

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

Hull, Raymond

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Carson, Johnny

48.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

49.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

50.

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.