Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Moliere

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

10.

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

Winters, Shelley

11.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

14.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

17.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

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

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

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

Rita Rudner

24.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Graham, James

26.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

28.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

29.

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

30.

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

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

32.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

33.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

37.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Bundy, Peg

39.

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

40.

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

Murray, Joe

41.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

44.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

45.

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

46.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

48.

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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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

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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