Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Murray, Joe

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Kauffman, Max

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hull, Raymond

12.

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

Pearl Buck

13.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

18.

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

Will Rogers

19.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

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.

21.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

24.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

27.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

28.

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

Graham, James

29.

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

30.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

31.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

34.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

35.

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

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

44.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

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

46.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

47.

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

48.

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

Miller, Harlan

49.

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

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