Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

- Anspacher, Louis K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Irving, Washington

13.

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

Graham, James

14.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

15.

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

Myers, Cecil

16.

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

17.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

18.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

19.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

20.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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

24.

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

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

27.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

28.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

33.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

34.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

35.

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

36.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

37.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

39.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

40.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

49.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

50.

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