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

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Young, Brigham

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

10.

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

11.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

12.

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

Myers, Cecil

13.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

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

15.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

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

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

20.

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

Samuel, Herbert

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

24.

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

25.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

26.

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

27.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

28.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

29.

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

Bush, Barbara

32.

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

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

35.

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

Hitopadesa

36.

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

37.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

38.

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

Skelton, Red

39.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

40.

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

41.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

42.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

43.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

44.

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

Victoria, Queen

45.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

48.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

49.

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

Rieux, Madame De

50.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid