Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

- Bunker, Archie

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Pearl Buck

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Chopin, Daniel

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Knowles, F. M.

14.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

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

Rudner, Rita

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lennon, John

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

29.

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

Wycherley, William

30.

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

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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

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

34.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Bundy, Peg

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

39.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Will Rogers

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Mae West

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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