Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Marriage

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Bennett, Jill

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

10.

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

Skelton, Red

11.

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

12.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

17.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

18.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

19.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

25.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

27.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

29.

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

30.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

33.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

37.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

38.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

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

Novalis

41.

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

Bible

42.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Hesiod

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

West, Mae

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.