Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

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

Will Rogers

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

11.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

14.

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

15.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

18.

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

Duncan, Isadora

19.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

25.

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

Bush, Barbara

26.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

27.

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

28.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

29.

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

30.

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

Pearl Buck

31.

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.

32.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

33.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

34.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

35.

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

Harrison, Jane

36.

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

Ruckett

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

39.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

40.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

41.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

42.

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

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

46.

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

47.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

48.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

49.

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

Ford, Richard

50.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen