Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Nick Faldo

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

Kathleen Norris

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Will Rogers

10.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

11.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

15.

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

Murray, Joe

16.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

17.

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

Winters, Shelley

18.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

19.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

20.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

24.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

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

30.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

31.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

32.

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

33.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

34.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

35.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

36.

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

37.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Diller, Phyllis

41.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

42.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

43.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Nelms, Cynthia

50.

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.