Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

11.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

23.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

36.

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

Novalis

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

38.

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

Moliere

39.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

43.

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

Ford, Richard

44.

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

Prior, Matthew

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