Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

12.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

15.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

16.

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

Diller, Phyllis

17.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

18.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

19.

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

20.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

21.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

22.

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

23.

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

Victoria, Queen

24.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

25.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

26.

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

27.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

28.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

33.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Mead, Margaret

35.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

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

37.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

38.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

39.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

40.

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

Marx, Groucho

41.

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

42.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

43.

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

44.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

45.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Bible

47.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

48.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

49.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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