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

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

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

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

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

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

Rieux, Madame De

15.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Lennon, John

18.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

19.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

Updike, John

21.

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

22.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

23.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

24.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

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

Miller, Harlan

28.

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

29.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

30.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

31.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

32.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

37.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

38.

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

Will Rogers

39.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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

41.

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

Nick Faldo

42.

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

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

45.

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.

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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

47.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Grizzard, Lewis