Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Bennett, Jill

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

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

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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

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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

13.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

14.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Graham, James

16.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

19.

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

Andre Maurois

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Baskins

25.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

26.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

29.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

30.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

32.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

33.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

34.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

35.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

37.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

38.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

Prior, Matthew

43.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

44.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

45.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

46.

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

Bush, Barbara

47.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

48.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.