Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

- Alan Patrick Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mae West

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

Miller, Harlan

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomason, Pauline

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bierce, Ambrose

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

10.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

11.

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

12.

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

Alexander, Shana

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

15.

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

Mead, Margaret

16.

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

17.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

18.

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

Diller, Phyllis

19.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

20.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

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

Penn, William

22.

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

23.

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

Pearl Buck

24.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

26.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Will Rogers

29.

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

Rieux, Madame De

30.

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

31.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

38.

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

Rita Rudner

39.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Knowles, F. M.

41.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

42.

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Wycherley, William

45.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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