Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Allen, Woody

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

11.

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

12.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

13.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

15.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

19.

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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

28.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

33.

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

Dave Meurer

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

36.

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

37.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

38.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

41.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

44.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

45.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Young, Brigham

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