Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Peter Blake

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

14.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

15.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

20.

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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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

22.

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

Ford, Richard

23.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

24.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

26.

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

27.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

28.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

32.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

33.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

34.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

38.

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

39.

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

Myers, Cecil

40.

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

Samuel, Herbert

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Helen Rowland

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

45.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

46.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

47.

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

Rooney, Mickey

48.

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

Winters, Shelley

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