Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Sunday, Billy

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

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

Peter Blake

10.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

12.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

15.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

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

20.

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

Barrymore, John

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Baum, Vicki

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Dave Meurer

26.

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

Farquhar, George

27.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

28.

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

Hitopadesa

29.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

30.

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

Bible

31.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

35.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

37.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

39.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

40.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

45.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.