Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Mae West

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Pancoast, Mal

10.

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

11.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

12.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

13.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

14.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

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

Miller, Harlan

19.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Cosby, Bill

21.

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

22.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

23.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

24.

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

25.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

28.

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

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

Myers, Cecil

30.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

33.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

34.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

35.

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

Barrymore, John

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

Victoria, Queen

37.

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

Nick Faldo

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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

39.

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

40.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

41.

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

42.

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

Kinison, Sam

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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