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

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

10.

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

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

17.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Ruckett

20.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

23.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

24.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

28.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

29.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

30.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

32.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

35.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

36.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

38.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

39.

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

43.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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

45.

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

Rooney, Mickey

46.

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

Mead, Margaret

47.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.