Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Ruckett

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Landers, Ann

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

Bierce, Ambrose

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

11.

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

Novalis

12.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

13.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

14.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

15.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

16.

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

17.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

18.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

20.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

22.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

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

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

28.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

34.

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

35.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Pancoast, Mal

39.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

40.

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

Winters, Shelley

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

43.

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

44.

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

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

46.

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

Lennon, John

47.

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

48.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

49.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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