Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Allen, Woody

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nick Faldo

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

10.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

13.

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

14.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

15.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

16.

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

Murray, Joe

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

24.

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

Novalis

25.

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

26.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

29.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

30.

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

31.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

32.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

33.

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

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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.

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

40.

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

41.

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

Rudner, Rita

42.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

43.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

45.

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

Duncan, Isadora

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

49.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl