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

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

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

Ruckett

12.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Alexander, Shana

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

19.

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

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

21.

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

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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

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

24.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

25.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

32.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

33.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

34.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

37.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

38.

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

Chopin, Daniel

39.

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

40.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

42.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

44.

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.

Ann Landers

45.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

46.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

47.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

48.

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

Cosby, Bill

49.

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

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward