Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Bush, Barbara

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

11.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

Barrymore, John

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

15.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

17.

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

18.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

21.

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

Pearl Buck

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rita Rudner

24.

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

Andre Maurois

25.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Rudner, Rita

31.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

32.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

35.

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

Will Rogers

36.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

39.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

40.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

44.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

45.

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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Ziglar, Zig