Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

10.

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

11.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

13.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

14.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

15.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

16.

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

17.

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

Baskins

18.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

19.

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

20.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

21.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

22.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

23.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

24.

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

25.

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

Chopin, Daniel

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

Kauffman, Max

28.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

29.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

30.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.