Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Irving, Washington

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

Vries, Peter De

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

12.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

13.

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

Andre Maurois

14.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

15.

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

16.

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

17.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

18.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

24.

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

Alexander, Shana

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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

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

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

Murray, Joe

34.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

36.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

37.

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

Ruckett

38.

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

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Congreve, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Dave Meurer

44.

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

45.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

48.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

49.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

50.

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

Elizabeth I