Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Will Rogers

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.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cosby, Bill

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Barrymore, John

12.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

13.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

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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

22.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

23.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

24.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Murray, Joe

26.

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

27.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

28.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

32.

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

33.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

34.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

35.

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

36.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

40.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

42.

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

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Samuel, Herbert

48.

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

49.

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

Rita Rudner

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.