Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

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

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

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

Wycherley, William

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

10.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

16.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

20.

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

21.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

22.

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

Will Rogers

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

26.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

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

Sunday, Billy

28.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

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

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

35.

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

Cosby, Bill

36.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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

38.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

39.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

40.

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

Baskins

41.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

42.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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

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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

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

47.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

49.

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

50.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De