Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Irving, Washington

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

10.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

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

13.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

14.

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

15.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Rooney, Mickey

19.

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

Kathleen Norris

20.

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

Alexander, Shana

22.

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

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

25.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

29.

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

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

32.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

33.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

35.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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

39.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

40.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

43.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

49.

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

Billings, Josh

50.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden