Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

- Andre Maurois

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thomason, Pauline

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Irving, Washington

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smalley, Gary

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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

11.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Samuel, Herbert

20.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

21.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

23.

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

Cosby, Bill

24.

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

28.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

29.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

30.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

31.

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

Harrison, Jane

32.

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

33.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

36.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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

Prior, Matthew

41.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

43.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

47.

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

48.

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

Kathleen Norris

49.

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

50.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther