Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Penn, William

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Moliere

11.

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

Nick Faldo

12.

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

Prior, Matthew

13.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

16.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

18.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

19.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

20.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

Spencer, Herbert

25.

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

26.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Winters, Shelley

30.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

31.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

32.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Winters, Shelley

34.

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

Kauffman, Max

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

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

Peter Blake

37.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

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

39.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

40.

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

Miller, Harlan

41.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Bundy, Peg

43.

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

44.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

Myers, Cecil

46.

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

47.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

48.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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

50.

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