Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

- Cartland, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Proverb

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Rita Rudner

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

15.

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

Nick Faldo

16.

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

Penn, William

17.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Will Rogers

24.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

27.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

28.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

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

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

36.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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.

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Landers, Ann

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

41.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

42.

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

43.

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

Jong, Erica

44.

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

Luther, Martin

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

48.

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

49.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

50.

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.