Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Ford, Richard

10.

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

Winters, Shelley

11.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

12.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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

16.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

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

Mae West

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

24.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

25.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

26.

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

Kathleen Norris

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.

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

Cosby, Bill

29.

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

Will Rogers

30.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

33.

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

Thomason, Pauline

34.

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

35.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Vass, Susan

37.

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

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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

39.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

40.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

42.

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

Wycherley, William

43.

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

44.

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

Knowles, F. M.

45.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

Vries, Peter De

48.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

49.

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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French