Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Grizzard, Lewis

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

11.

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

Hull, Raymond

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

Ruckett

15.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

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

18.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

21.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

22.

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

23.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

24.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

25.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

26.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

27.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

31.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

32.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

33.

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

Chopin, Daniel

34.

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

35.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

36.

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

37.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

38.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

39.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

40.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

41.

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

Bible

42.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

43.

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

44.

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

45.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

Mickey Rooney

47.

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

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