Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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.

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

17.

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

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

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

21.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Rooney, Mickey

26.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

27.

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

Will Rogers

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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.

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

Graham, James

30.

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

Smalley, Gary

31.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

32.

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

Diller, Phyllis

33.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

34.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

35.

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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

37.

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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

46.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

48.

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

Myers, Cecil

49.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean