Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Skelton, Red

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mae West

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Alexander, Shana

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Coward, Noel

12.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

13.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

14.

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

15.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

16.

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

Helen Rowland

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

19.

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

20.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

21.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

22.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

25.

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

26.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

27.

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

28.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

29.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

30.

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

Peter Blake

31.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

32.

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

Key, Ellen

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

38.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

39.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

40.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

41.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

42.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

43.

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

Pancoast, Mal

44.

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

Balzac, Honore De

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

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

Ford, Richard

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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.

Ann Landers