Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Spanish

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Marx, Groucho

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

15.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

16.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Kathleen Norris

19.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

23.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

24.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

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

29.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

Irving, Washington

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

33.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

41.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

42.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

43.

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

Moliere

44.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

48.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb