Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Luther, Martin

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

11.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

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

Novalis

19.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

33.

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

34.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

35.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

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

37.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.