Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Will Rogers

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

Mae West

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

10.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

11.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

12.

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

13.

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

Cosby, Bill

14.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

15.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

16.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

17.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

20.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

21.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

23.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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

25.

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

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

28.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

30.

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

Coward, Noel

31.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Halen

34.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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