Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Clarke, W. A.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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

11.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

13.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

14.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

15.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

18.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

19.

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

Smalley, Gary

20.

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

Sunday, Billy

21.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

22.

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

23.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

24.

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

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Wycherley, William

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

29.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

32.

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

Baum, Vicki

33.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

34.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

35.

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.

36.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

41.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

46.

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

Vries, Peter De

47.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

48.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

49.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

50.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis