Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Maurois, Andre

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

11.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

12.

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

13.

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

Rieux, Madame De

14.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

15.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

16.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

17.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

18.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

20.

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

Alexander, Shana

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

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

26.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

32.

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

33.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

34.

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

Diller, Phyllis

35.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

38.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

39.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

40.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

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.

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

45.

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

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

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet