Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hitopadesa

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

16.

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

Chopin, Daniel

17.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

18.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Spencer, Herbert

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

29.

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

30.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

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

32.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

33.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

34.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

35.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

36.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

37.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

38.

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

39.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

40.

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

Wycherley, William

41.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

42.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

44.

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

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

47.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

48.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.