Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Wilson, Earl

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

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

10.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

17.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

18.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

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

21.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

28.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

29.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

30.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

32.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Graham, James

35.

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

36.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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