Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Hitopadesa

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

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

10.

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

11.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Harrison, Jane

14.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

20.

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

Kathleen Norris

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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

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

23.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Ford, Richard

25.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

27.

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

Chopin, Daniel

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

30.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

31.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

32.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Bible

36.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

37.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

39.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

41.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Marx, Groucho