Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

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

Pearl Buck

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Updike, John

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

10.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

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

19.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

20.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

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

Graham, James

22.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

23.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

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

25.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

26.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

27.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

28.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

30.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

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

Smalley, Gary

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

39.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

40.

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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

42.

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

43.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

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

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

Dave Meurer

46.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

Landers, Ann

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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