Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Duncan, Isadora

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Miller, Harlan

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

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Eliot, George

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Proverb

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

Winters, Shelley

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bush, Barbara

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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

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Spencer, Herbert

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Coward, Noel

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Pearl Buck