Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Updike, John

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

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

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

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

10.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

Eucharista Ward

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

15.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

16.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

17.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

18.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

19.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

20.

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

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

Barrymore, John

23.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

24.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

26.

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

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

William Shakespeare

28.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

29.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

30.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

32.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

33.

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

Moliere

34.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Lennon, John

38.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

39.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

45.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

46.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Lawana Blackwell