Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

- Newman, Nanette

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Halen

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

11.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

12.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

13.

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

Kauffman, Max

14.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

16.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

19.

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

Updike, John

20.

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

Duncan, Isadora

21.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Rudner, Rita

23.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

24.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

25.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

29.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

31.

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

Hitopadesa

32.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

39.

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

40.

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

Harrison, Jane

41.

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

42.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

44.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Mickey Rooney

46.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.