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

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb, Scottish

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

14.

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

Hull, Raymond

15.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

16.

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

17.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

21.

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.

22.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Bennett, Jill

25.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

Bundy, Peg

30.

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

Vass, Susan

31.

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

32.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

33.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

34.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

37.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

41.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

43.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

44.

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

Clarke, W. A.

45.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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