Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kinison, Sam

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Coward, Noel

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

11.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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.

14.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

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

16.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

18.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

19.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

20.

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

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

22.

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

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

29.

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

Dave Meurer

30.

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

31.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

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

Congreve, William

35.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

36.

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

37.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

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

Hull, Raymond

40.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

41.

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

Irving, Washington

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