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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Helen Rowland

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Hull, Raymond

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

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

Proverb

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Ruckett

12.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

13.

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

Spencer, Herbert

14.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

15.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

17.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

18.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

19.

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

Congreve, William

20.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

25.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

28.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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

30.

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

Mickey Rooney

31.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

32.

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

Hitopadesa

33.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Barrymore, John

35.

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

Duncan, Isadora

36.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

39.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

40.

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

41.

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

Rita Rudner

42.

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

43.

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

Murray, Joe

44.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

45.

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

46.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

48.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther