Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

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

11.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

12.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

15.

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

Winters, Shelley

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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

20.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

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

Hitopadesa

23.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

25.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

26.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

27.

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

Kauffman, Max

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

33.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

34.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

35.

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

36.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

Jong, Erica

41.

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

Irving, Washington

42.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

43.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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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

46.

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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.