Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Proverb

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

10.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

11.

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.

Ann Landers

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

19.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Ford, Richard

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

26.

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

Pancoast, Mal

27.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

28.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

29.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

30.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

31.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

33.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

35.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Dupuy, Alexis

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

41.

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

Kinison, Sam

42.

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

Wilson, Earl

43.

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

Vries, Peter De

44.

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

Smith, Sydney

45.

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

Barrymore, John

46.

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

47.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

48.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

49.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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