Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Will Rogers

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

Alexander, Shana

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Ruckett

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Hitopadesa

10.

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

11.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

12.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

13.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

14.

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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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

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

Sunday, Billy

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

18.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Moliere

20.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

21.

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

22.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Vass, Susan

24.

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

Ford, Richard

25.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

27.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

29.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

31.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

33.

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

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

35.

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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

37.

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

West, Mae

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

40.

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

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

42.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

43.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!