Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

- Ford, Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Moliere

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

Proverb

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

10.

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

11.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

13.

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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

19.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

20.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Prior, Matthew

24.

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

Nick Faldo

25.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

28.

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

Penn, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

31.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

32.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

33.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

34.

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

Barrymore, John

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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

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

37.

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

Murray, Joe

38.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Rooney, Mickey

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

47.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

49.

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

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

Proverb, German