Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Bush, Barbara

10.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

11.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

12.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

13.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

17.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

18.

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

Alexander, Shana

19.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

20.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

25.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

27.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

Proverb, Scottish

31.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

32.

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

33.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

42.

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

43.

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

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.

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

46.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

47.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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