Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

- Alexander, Shana

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

12.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

14.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Allen, Woody

17.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

18.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

19.

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

20.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Vries, Peter De

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

24.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

25.

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

26.

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

Duncan, Isadora

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Moliere

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

33.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

34.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Myers, Cecil

36.

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

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

38.

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

39.

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

Rita Rudner

40.

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.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

45.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.