Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Wycherley, William

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

10.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

11.

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

12.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

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

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

16.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

17.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

19.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

20.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Hull, Raymond

22.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

23.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

24.

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

Nick Faldo

25.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

27.

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

28.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

36.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

37.

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

Murray, Joe

38.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

39.

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

Duncan, Isadora

40.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

41.

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

42.

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

Thomason, Pauline

43.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

44.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

45.

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

Duncan, Isadora

46.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

49.

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

Barrymore, John

50.

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