Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

- Corelli, Marie

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hesiod

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Cosby, Bill

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Byron, Lord

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

12.

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.

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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

Andre Maurois

16.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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 not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

20.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Pearl Buck

27.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

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

Bush, Barbara

34.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

35.

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

Mickey Rooney

37.

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

38.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

39.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

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

44.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Farquhar, George

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

47.

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

Skelton, Red

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.