Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Marriage

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Vries, Peter De

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wycherley, William

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

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

11.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

13.

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

19.

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

Victoria, Queen

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

22.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

25.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

26.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

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

28.

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

Winters, Shelley

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

36.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Bible

38.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

39.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baskins

48.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen