Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

- Miller, Harlan

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Spanish

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

10.

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

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

15.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

16.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

17.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

18.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

22.

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

Hull, Raymond

23.

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

24.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

30.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

31.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

33.

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

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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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.

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

42.

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

Luther, Martin

43.

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

44.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kathleen Norris

46.

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

47.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

48.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

49.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

50.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.