Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Nick Faldo

Best Quotes about Marriage

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Rita Rudner

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

Wycherley, William

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

12.

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

Mae West

13.

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

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Murray, Joe

16.

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

Diller, Phyllis

17.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Maurois, Andre

19.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

21.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

22.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

23.

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

24.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

33.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

35.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

37.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

38.

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

39.

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

Halen

40.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Will Rogers

43.

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

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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