Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Bennett, Jill

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

14.

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

Mickey Rooney

15.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

18.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

19.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

20.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

21.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

23.

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

24.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Rudner, Rita

26.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

27.

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

28.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

29.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

30.

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

Novalis

31.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

34.

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

35.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

36.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

37.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

39.

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

Irving, Washington

40.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

41.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

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.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

46.

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

47.

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

Andre Maurois

48.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.

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

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

Byron, Lord