Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

- Fox, Michael J.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Bierce, Ambrose

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Hull, Raymond

12.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

13.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

14.

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

15.

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

16.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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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

24.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

30.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

31.

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

32.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

33.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

34.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

35.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

37.

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

38.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

39.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

40.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

43.

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

Lennon, John

44.

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

Pearl Buck

45.

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

Winters, Shelley

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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