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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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

Will Rogers

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

William Shakespeare

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Sondheim, Stephen

10.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

11.

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

Mickey Rooney

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

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

17.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

18.

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

Sunday, Billy

19.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

20.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

21.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

22.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

23.

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

24.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Alexander, Shana

26.

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

Rita Rudner

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

29.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

34.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Nelms, Cynthia

38.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

39.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

40.

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

Rooney, Mickey

41.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

44.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

45.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

46.

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

47.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

48.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

50.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De