Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Duncan, Isadora

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

Peter Blake

11.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

Rooney, Mickey

14.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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

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

Congreve, William

17.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

18.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Kathleen Norris

21.

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

22.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

23.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

Elizabeth I

27.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

31.

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

32.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

33.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

35.

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

Mickey Rooney

36.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

37.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

40.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Murray, Joe

45.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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