Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

- Mccant, Jerry

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Maurois, Andre

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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.

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

Young, Brigham

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

12.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

14.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

15.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

17.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

20.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

23.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

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

25.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

26.

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

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

29.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Bush, Barbara

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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

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

Skelton, Red

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

40.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

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

43.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

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

Harrison, Jane

47.

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

48.

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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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