Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Halen

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

16.

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

Congreve, William

17.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

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

20.

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

Pearl Buck

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

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

Marx, Groucho

29.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

30.

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

31.

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

Chopin, Daniel

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

34.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Eucharista Ward

39.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

41.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

42.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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

44.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

45.

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

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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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 would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony