Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Luther, Martin

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

10.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Spencer, Herbert

18.

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

19.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

27.

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

Irving, Washington

28.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

30.

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

Ruckett

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Farquhar, George

33.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

34.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

35.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

36.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

37.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

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

Will Rogers

40.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

41.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

45.

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

Bennett, Jill

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

47.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

Halen

49.

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

Pearl Buck

50.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary