Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Updike, John

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Heine, Heinrich

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Key, Ellen

10.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

11.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

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.

13.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

14.

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

Victoria, Queen

15.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

16.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

21.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

22.

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

Hitopadesa

23.

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

24.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

25.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

26.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

30.

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

31.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

32.

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

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

35.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

36.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

37.

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

38.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

39.

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

40.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

41.

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

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

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

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

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

Ford, Richard

47.

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

48.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen