Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

William Shakespeare

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Hull, Raymond

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

14.

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

18.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

22.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

24.

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

Halen

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

30.

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

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

33.

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

34.

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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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