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

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

Chopin, Daniel

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rita Rudner

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

10.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

13.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

14.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Maurois, Andre

17.

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

18.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

19.

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

20.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

22.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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

24.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

25.

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

Ruckett

26.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

27.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

30.

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

Smalley, Gary

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

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

35.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

36.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

37.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Baskins

39.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

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

Barrymore, John

41.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

42.

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

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

44.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Maurois, Andre

50.

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