Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Elizabeth I

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

12.

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

Rudner, Rita

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

15.

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

Barrymore, John

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hitopadesa

23.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

24.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Mickey Rooney

28.

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

29.

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

30.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Moliere

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

37.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

38.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

39.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

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

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

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

Pancoast, Mal

46.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

48.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

49.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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