Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Mickey Rooney

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 our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

12.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

13.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

14.

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

Baskins

15.

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

16.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Vries, Peter De

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

20.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

21.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

23.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

24.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

25.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

27.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

31.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

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

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

37.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

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

Landers, Ann

39.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

41.

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

Heine, Heinrich

42.

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

43.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

44.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

45.

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

46.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

47.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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