Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Vass, Susan

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bush, Barbara

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

15.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

17.

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

Clarke, W. A.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Elizabeth I

24.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

26.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

27.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

28.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

29.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

30.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

31.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

32.

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

Dave Meurer

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Bennett, Jill

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

44.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

45.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

46.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh