Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mcginley, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ford, Richard

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

15.

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.

16.

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

Skelton, Red

17.

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

18.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

20.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

21.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

22.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

23.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

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

29.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

32.

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

Thomason, Pauline

33.

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

34.

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

Baskins

35.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

37.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

38.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

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

40.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Kinison, Sam

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides