Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Bible

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Andre Maurois

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

10.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Kathleen Norris

14.

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

Halen

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

17.

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

Helen Rowland

18.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

22.

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

Moliere

23.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

26.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

27.

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

28.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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

30.

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

Rita Rudner

31.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

37.

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

Skelton, Red

38.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

39.

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

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

41.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

42.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

43.

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

44.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

46.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

48.

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

Wycherley, William

49.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

50.

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