Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

10.

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

11.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

14.

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

Rooney, Mickey

15.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

16.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

18.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

19.

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

Landers, Ann

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.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

24.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

25.

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

Winters, Shelley

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.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

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

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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

30.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Wycherley, William

32.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

38.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

39.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

42.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

44.

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

45.

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

Rita Rudner

46.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

49.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma