Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dave Meurer

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

Wilson, Earl

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Ford, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Baum, Vicki

12.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

15.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

16.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

17.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

19.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

20.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

21.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

22.

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

Murray, Joe

23.

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

24.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

25.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

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

Will Rogers

30.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

31.

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

Alexander, Shana

32.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

33.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

34.

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

Updike, John

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

37.

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

38.

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

Halen

39.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

45.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

46.

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

47.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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