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

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

Cosby, Bill

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

West, Mae

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

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

Peter Blake

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

10.

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

Bundy, Peg

11.

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

12.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

16.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

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

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

19.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Andre Maurois

23.

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

Ruckett

24.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Bible

28.

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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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

30.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

Murray, Joe

32.

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

Mickey Rooney

33.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

35.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

36.

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

Young, Brigham

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

39.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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

43.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

44.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

46.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

47.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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