Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Miller, Harlan

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

West, Mae

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Helen Rowland

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

10.

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

Novalis

11.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

12.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Ruckett

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Bible

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

18.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

19.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

20.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

21.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

23.

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

Rooney, Mickey

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

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

Updike, John

27.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

28.

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

29.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

30.

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

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

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Elizabeth I

35.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

36.

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

Kinison, Sam

37.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

38.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

40.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

45.

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

Proverb