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

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

Sunday, Billy

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Wilder, Thornton

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

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

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Barrymore, John

18.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

19.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

24.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

25.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

28.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

29.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

30.

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

Pearl Buck

31.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

Young, Brigham

34.

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

Andre Maurois

35.

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

Farquhar, George

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

39.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

40.

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

41.

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

Cosby, Bill

42.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

45.

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

46.

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

Wycherley, William

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

49.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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