Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Pearl Buck

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

10.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

13.

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

14.

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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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.

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

20.

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

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

Lennon, John

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

27.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

35.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

36.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

37.

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

38.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

42.

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

43.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

44.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

46.

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

47.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

48.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

49.

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