Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Moliere

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

10.

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

Andre Maurois

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Alexander, Shana

13.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

14.

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

15.

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

Skelton, Red

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

18.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Scottish

23.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

27.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

28.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

29.

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

Bible

30.

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.

Landers, Ann

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

33.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Wycherley, William

36.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

37.

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

38.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Maurois, Andre

40.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

41.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

42.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

43.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

47.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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