Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Barrymore, John

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

Hitopadesa

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Moliere

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

13.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

14.

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

15.

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

Baskins

16.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

17.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

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

23.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

27.

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

28.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

31.

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

Pancoast, Mal

32.

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

33.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

34.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Samuel, Herbert

36.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

37.

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

38.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

39.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

40.

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

41.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

44.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

45.

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

46.

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

Smalley, Gary

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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

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

49.

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

Proverb

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

Peter Blake