Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

- Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Key, Ellen

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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

14.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

15.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

16.

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

Kinison, Sam

17.

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

Murray, Joe

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

20.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

22.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

26.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

27.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

28.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

33.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

34.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

35.

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

36.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

41.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

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

43.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

44.

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

45.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

46.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

47.

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.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

49.

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

Rita Rudner

50.

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

Rieux, Madame De