Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sunday, Billy

Best Quotes about Marriage

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

10.

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

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

12.

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

Smalley, Gary

13.

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

14.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

17.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

18.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

21.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

22.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

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

29.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

30.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

34.

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

35.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

36.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

37.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

38.

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

Wycherley, William

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

41.

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

Mead, Margaret

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.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

44.

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

Maurois, Andre

45.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.