Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Marriage

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

10.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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

Proverb, Scottish

15.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

Rita Rudner

19.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

20.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

21.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

22.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

26.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

27.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

28.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

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

Rooney, Mickey

32.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

33.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

34.

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

35.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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

Nick Faldo

40.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

42.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

43.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

44.

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

Novalis

45.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

48.

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Ruckett