Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

- Bunker, Archie

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Will Rogers

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

12.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

13.

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

Dave Meurer

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

17.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

18.

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

19.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

20.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

21.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

22.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

23.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

24.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

25.

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

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

27.

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

28.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

29.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Bible

33.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

34.

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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

36.

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

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

39.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

40.

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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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

42.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Diller, Phyllis

45.

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

Penn, William