Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Landers, Ann

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Chatterton, Thomas

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

10.

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

11.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

12.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

13.

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

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

15.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

16.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

17.

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

18.

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

19.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

24.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

26.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

27.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

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.

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

Proverb

31.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

32.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Byron, Lord

34.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

35.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

36.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

37.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Irving, Washington

40.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

41.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.