Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Maurois, Andre

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Jong, Erica

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

10.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

13.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

19.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

20.

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

Barrymore, John

21.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

22.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

23.

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

Miller, Harlan

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

27.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

28.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

29.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

30.

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

31.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

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

33.

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

Sunday, Billy

34.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

38.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

39.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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.

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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

45.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.