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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

10.

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

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

14.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

17.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

18.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

19.

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

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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

21.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

22.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

27.

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

28.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

30.

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

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

34.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

36.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

37.

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

Bible

38.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

39.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

40.

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

Vass, Susan

41.

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

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

44.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

46.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Proverb, German

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb