Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

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

Skelton, Red

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

13.

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

Congreve, William

14.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

15.

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

Kinison, Sam

16.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

18.

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

Chopin, Daniel

19.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

20.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

21.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

22.

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

Thomason, Pauline

23.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

24.

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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Ferber, Edna

26.

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

27.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

30.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

32.

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

Wilson, Earl

33.

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

Cosby, Bill

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Kauffman, Max

36.

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

37.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Bush, Barbara

44.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

45.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

46.

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

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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

48.

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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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