Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mae West

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Penn, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

Graham, James

11.

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

12.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

23.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

25.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

29.

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

30.

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

Rooney, Mickey

31.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

33.

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

34.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

35.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

36.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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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.

Ann Landers

39.

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

Vass, Susan

40.

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

Winters, Shelley

41.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

43.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

48.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

49.

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

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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.