Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

West, Mae

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

12.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

13.

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

14.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

15.

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

16.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

17.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

18.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

19.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

20.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

21.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

22.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

23.

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

Dave Meurer

24.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

25.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

28.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

29.

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

Vass, Susan

30.

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

31.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

32.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

36.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

37.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

38.

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

Rowland, Helen

39.

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

40.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

41.

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

42.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

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

Key, Ellen

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

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

Proverb, Scottish

48.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

49.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De