Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Jong, Erica

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

15.

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

Rita Rudner

16.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

18.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

Lennon, John

21.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, German

24.

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

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

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

Rudner, Rita

27.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

28.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

29.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

30.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

33.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

34.

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

35.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

36.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

37.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

38.

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

39.

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

Maurois, Andre

40.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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.

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

Moliere

43.

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

44.

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

Rieux, Madame De

45.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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 have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord