Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pancoast, Mal

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

10.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

13.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

14.

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

Peter Blake

15.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

16.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

17.

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

Proverb

18.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

19.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

21.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

22.

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

Andre Maurois

23.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Updike, John

28.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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

30.

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

Moliere

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

33.

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

Heine, Heinrich

34.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

35.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

36.

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

37.

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

38.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Coward, Noel

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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.

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

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

Winters, Shelley

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

49.

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

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver