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

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

Hitopadesa

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

10.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

11.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

13.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

14.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

15.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

16.

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

Duncan, Isadora

17.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

19.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

20.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

22.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

23.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

30.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

31.

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

32.

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

Maurois, Andre

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

35.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

37.

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

Irving, Washington

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

39.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

40.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

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

42.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

43.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

44.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

46.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Spencer, Herbert

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.