Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

12.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Victoria, Queen

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

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

20.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

22.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

23.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

25.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

26.

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

Murray, Joe

27.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

28.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

29.

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

Carson, Johnny

30.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

31.

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

32.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Wycherley, William

37.

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

Nick Faldo

38.

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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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

40.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

41.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Bible

43.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

44.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

45.

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

Proverb

46.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.