Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Peter Blake

10.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

15.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

21.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

Nick Faldo

25.

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

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

Elizabeth I

27.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

28.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

31.

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

32.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

34.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

35.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

36.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

37.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

38.

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

39.

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

40.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

42.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.