Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Kinison, Sam

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

11.

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

Halen

12.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

14.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

15.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

16.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

17.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

19.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

22.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Peter Blake

27.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

30.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

31.

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

32.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

33.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

34.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

35.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

Hitopadesa

38.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

39.

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

40.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

44.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

45.

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

Victoria, Queen

46.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

47.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

48.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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.