Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mencken, H. L.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Carson, Johnny

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Allen, Woody

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kathleen Norris

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

10.

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

11.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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.

15.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

18.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

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

25.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

28.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

31.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

33.

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

34.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

36.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

39.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

44.

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

Elizabeth I

45.

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