Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Luther, Martin

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Andre Maurois

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

10.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

12.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

13.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

15.

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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Coward, Noel

21.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

22.

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

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

Graham, James

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Peter Blake

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

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

32.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Bennett, Jill

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

42.

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

43.

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

Bundy, Peg

44.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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