Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

- Smalley, Gary

Best Quotes about Marriage

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Balzac, Honore De

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Vries, Peter De

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Peter Blake

10.

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

Graham, James

11.

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

Barrymore, John

12.

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

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

21.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

22.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

24.

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

25.

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

26.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

28.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

29.

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

34.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

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

Murray, Joe

37.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

40.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

43.

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

Wycherley, William

44.

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

45.

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

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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