Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Irving, Washington

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

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.

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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Will Rogers

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Hull, Raymond

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

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

16.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Pancoast, Mal

23.

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

24.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

26.

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

Moliere

27.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

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

Wycherley, William

30.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

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

Ford, Richard

35.

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

36.

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

Barrymore, John

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Marriage is the sunset of love.