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

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Miller, Harlan

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

10.

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

Winters, Shelley

11.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

12.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

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

Pancoast, Mal

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Proverb

19.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

20.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

Skelton, Red

23.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

25.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

29.

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

Coward, Noel

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.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

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

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

35.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

36.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

37.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

38.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

39.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

40.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

42.

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

Mickey Rooney

43.

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

44.

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

Rooney, Mickey

45.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

46.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

47.

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

Prior, Matthew

48.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

49.

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

Diller, Phyllis

50.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony