Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Vass, Susan

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

Farquhar, George

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

10.

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

Peter Blake

11.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

15.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

Chopin, Daniel

17.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

18.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

21.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

22.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

23.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

28.

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

Jong, Erica

29.

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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

32.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

36.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

38.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

39.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

40.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

45.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

46.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

47.

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

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare