Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

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

Graham, James

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Helen Rowland

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

12.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

13.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

14.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

15.

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

Skelton, Red

16.

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

17.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

20.

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

21.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

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

Spencer, Herbert

23.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

24.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

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

Hull, Raymond

30.

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

Congreve, William

31.

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.

32.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

36.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

38.

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

Elizabeth I

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Dave Meurer

42.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

43.

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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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

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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

46.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

47.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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

49.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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