Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Duncan, Isadora

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Murray, Joe

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

10.

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

11.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

Kinison, Sam

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Victoria, Queen

16.

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

17.

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

Novalis

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

28.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

29.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

33.

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

34.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

35.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

36.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

37.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

38.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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