Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

11.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Rita Rudner

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

17.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

18.

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

Landers, Ann

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

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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

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

33.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

39.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

44.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

45.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

47.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

48.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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