Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Allen, Woody

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Rowland, Helen

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Kathleen Norris

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

16.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

17.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

18.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

21.

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

22.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

23.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

25.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Rudner, Rita

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Graham, James

30.

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

Murray, Joe

31.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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.

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

34.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

36.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

37.

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

38.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

43.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

44.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

45.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

46.

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

Nick Faldo

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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

48.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

49.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

50.

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

Rooney, Mickey