Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Moliere

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Nick Faldo

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

10.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

14.

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

Bennett, Jill

15.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

16.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

18.

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

Eucharista Ward

19.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

25.

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

Farquhar, George

26.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

27.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

28.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

29.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

36.

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.

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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

39.

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

40.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

41.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

42.

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

Proverb