Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

10.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

13.

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

14.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

15.

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

16.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

17.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

18.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

19.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

24.

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

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

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

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

Chopin, Daniel

29.

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

30.

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

Halen

31.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

32.

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

Coward, Noel

33.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

34.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

37.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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

39.

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

40.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

Baum, Vicki

45.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

47.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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