Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Marriage

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Vass, Susan

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

16.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Eucharista Ward

20.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

22.

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

23.

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

Baum, Vicki

24.

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

Will Rogers

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

27.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

28.

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

29.

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

Novalis

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Bible

35.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Young, Brigham

37.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

38.

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

39.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

40.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh