Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Marriage

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Chopin, Daniel

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

12.

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

West, Mae

13.

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

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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

17.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

Dave Meurer

20.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

21.

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

Murray, Joe

22.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

30.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

31.

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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

35.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Bundy, Peg

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.