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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Farquhar, George

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

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Pancoast, Mal

10.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

11.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

12.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Nick Faldo

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

19.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

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

26.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

43.

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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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