Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Penn, William

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

Thomason, Pauline

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

11.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

12.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

13.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

14.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

15.

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

Peter Blake

16.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

18.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Moliere

23.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

24.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

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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

28.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

29.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

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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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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

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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

36.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

37.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

38.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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.

40.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

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

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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

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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

48.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

49.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Smith, Sydney