Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bible

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Wycherley, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

21.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Ford, Richard

23.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

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

Miller, Harlan

27.

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

28.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

32.

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

33.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

34.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Allen, Woody

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Byron, Lord

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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