Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Elizabeth I

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Key, Ellen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

11.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

12.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Thomason, Pauline

15.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

16.

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

17.

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

Rieux, Madame De

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

20.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

21.

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

Landers, Ann

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

23.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

24.

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

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

27.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

28.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb, German

30.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

31.

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

Baskins

32.

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

Maurois, Andre

33.

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

Skelton, Red

34.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Eliot, George

39.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

Smalley, Gary

42.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

48.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?