Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Wilder, Thornton

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Key, Ellen

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

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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.

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Kathleen Norris

12.

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

13.

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

Diller, Phyllis

14.

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

Ford, Richard

15.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

16.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

17.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

19.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

20.

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

21.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bush, Barbara

24.

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

Mae West

25.

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

26.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

29.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

30.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

31.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

34.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

37.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

38.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

39.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Pancoast, Mal

44.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

48.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

49.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.