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

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

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

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Elizabeth I

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

Novalis

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

Ford, Richard

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

Allen, Woody

10.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

11.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

Knowles, F. M.

19.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

20.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

21.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

22.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

23.

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

Bush, Barbara

24.

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

25.

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

Halen

26.

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

27.

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

Kinison, Sam

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Diller, Phyllis

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

Pearl Buck

33.

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

Harrison, Jane

34.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

35.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

36.

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

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

39.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Clarke, W. A.

41.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

42.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

43.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

44.

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

45.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

47.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

48.

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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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