Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Marriage

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

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

Maurois, Andre

16.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

17.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

18.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

22.

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

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

24.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

25.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

26.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

28.

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

29.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

30.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

31.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

32.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

33.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

34.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

35.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

36.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

39.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

Peter Blake

42.

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

43.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

44.

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.

45.

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

Baskins

46.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

47.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.