Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Eliot, George

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

Allen, Woody

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

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Skelton, Red

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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

13.

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

14.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

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

20.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

22.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

24.

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

Victoria, Queen

25.

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.

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

29.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

30.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

Proverb

32.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

33.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

34.

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

35.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bible

37.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

38.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

39.

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

Vass, Susan

40.

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

Balzac, Honore De

41.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

42.

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

Hitopadesa

43.

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

44.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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