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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

Kathleen Norris

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

10.

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

Proverb, Scottish

11.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

12.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

13.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

14.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Baskins

16.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

17.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Bible

19.

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

Samuel, Herbert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

27.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

28.

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

Bennett, Jill

29.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

30.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Penn, William

35.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

37.

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

38.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

45.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

48.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

49.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean