Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

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

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

15.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

16.

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

17.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

18.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

19.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

Baskins

22.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

27.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

28.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

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

Wycherley, William

30.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

31.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

35.

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

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

38.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

39.

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

40.

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

Moliere

41.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

42.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

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

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

50.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides