Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

Rita Rudner

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Barrymore, John

10.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

11.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Skelton, Red

15.

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

16.

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

Hitopadesa

17.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

21.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

23.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

24.

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

25.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

29.

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

30.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

Alexander, Shana

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

36.

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

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

Bible

38.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

39.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

40.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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

Bush, Barbara

43.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

44.

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

Proverb

45.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

46.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

49.

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

50.

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