Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sunday, Billy

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Allen, Woody

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

17.

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

18.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

19.

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

20.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

21.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

23.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

26.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

27.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

29.

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

30.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

31.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

32.

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

33.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

34.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Scottish

37.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

38.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

39.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

40.

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

Marx, Groucho

41.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

42.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

44.

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

45.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

46.

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

47.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

48.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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