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

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

Will Rogers

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

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

12.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

13.

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

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

17.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

18.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

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

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

25.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

26.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

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

28.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

33.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

36.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

37.

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

38.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

39.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

Rooney, Mickey

42.

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

Farquhar, George

43.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

44.

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

45.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.