Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Will Rogers

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Bible

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

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

10.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

11.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

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

14.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

17.

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

18.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

21.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

22.

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

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

29.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

30.

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.

31.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

33.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Congreve, William

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

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

Clarke, W. A.

38.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

39.

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

Maurois, Andre

40.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

41.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

42.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

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.

44.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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