Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Bible

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

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cosby, Bill

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Will Rogers

10.

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

11.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

12.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

17.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

18.

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

Novalis

19.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

21.

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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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

23.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

24.

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

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.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Kathleen Norris

32.

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

Miller, Harlan

33.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

34.

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

Ford, Richard

35.

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

Bush, Barbara

36.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Wycherley, William

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

42.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

43.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

44.

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

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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

46.

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

Diller, Phyllis

47.

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

48.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

49.

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

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas