Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

10.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

11.

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

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

15.

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

Dave Meurer

16.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

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

Wycherley, William

20.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

21.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

22.

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

Prior, Matthew

23.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

26.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

27.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

28.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

29.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

31.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

32.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Wilson, Earl

37.

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

Proverb

38.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

39.

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

40.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

41.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

43.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Eucharista Ward

48.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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