Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

- Skelton, Red

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Will Rogers

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

13.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Mickey Rooney

16.

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

Heine, Heinrich

17.

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

18.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

20.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

21.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

22.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

23.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

24.

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

25.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

26.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

27.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

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

Balzac, Honore De

32.

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

33.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

Hitopadesa

35.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

36.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

38.

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

Andre Maurois

39.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

40.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

43.

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.

44.

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

Nick Faldo

45.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, German

48.

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

Sunday, Billy

49.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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.