Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Marriage

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

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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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'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.

13.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

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

Eucharista Ward

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bundy, Peg

21.

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

22.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

23.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

24.

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

25.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

26.

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

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

29.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

30.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

32.

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

Bible

33.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

34.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

35.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

39.

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

Halen

40.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

43.

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

Moliere

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

46.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

48.

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

Congreve, William

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.