Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Mead, Margaret

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Halen

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

10.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

11.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

13.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

22.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

23.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

24.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

26.

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

27.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

28.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

32.

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

Rieux, Madame De

33.

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

34.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

35.

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

Coward, Noel

36.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

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

40.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

41.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish