Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Miller, Harlan

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rudner, Rita

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

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

Proverb, German

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

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

12.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

13.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

16.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

18.

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

19.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

20.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

21.

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

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Samuel, Herbert

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

26.

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

Marx, Groucho

27.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

28.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

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

30.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

31.

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

Sunday, Billy

32.

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

Vass, Susan

33.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

34.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

Rita Rudner

36.

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

Miller, Harlan

37.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

38.

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

39.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

40.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Rita Rudner

44.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

45.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

46.

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

Rieux, Madame De

47.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

48.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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.