Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

2.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

3.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

4.

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

5.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

6.

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

7.

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

Dave Meurer

8.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

9.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

10.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

11.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

14.

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

15.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

16.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

17.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

18.

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

Diller, Phyllis

19.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

20.

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

21.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

23.

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

Bible

24.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

26.

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

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

29.

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

Irving, Washington

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

31.

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

Proverb

32.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

33.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

34.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

36.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

38.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

39.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Pancoast, Mal

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Rita Rudner

47.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

48.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

49.

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

Carson, Johnny

50.

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

Kauffman, Max