Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ford, Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kathleen Norris

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

11.

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

Hull, Raymond

12.

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

Skelton, Red

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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

15.

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

Bundy, Peg

16.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

17.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

18.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

19.

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

20.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

22.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

23.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

25.

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

Moliere

26.

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

Duncan, Isadora

28.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

29.

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

Diller, Phyllis

30.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

31.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

32.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

33.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

34.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Eucharista Ward

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

41.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

42.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

46.

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

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

48.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

49.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

50.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus