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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Vries, Peter De

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

12.

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

Sunday, Billy

13.

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

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

Bush, Barbara

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Allen, Woody

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

27.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

28.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

30.

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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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

38.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

41.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

43.

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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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

45.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

46.

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

Ruckett

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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.