Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Luther, Martin

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

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

13.

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

Knowles, F. M.

14.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

15.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

18.

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

19.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

24.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Bible

27.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

28.

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

Kinison, Sam

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Smalley, Gary

40.

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

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

43.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

44.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

45.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

48.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

49.

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

50.

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