Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Chopin, Daniel

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Helen Rowland

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Baum, Vicki

12.

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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

15.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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.

18.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

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

23.

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

24.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

25.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

26.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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.

Ann Landers

30.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Bible

32.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

33.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

34.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

35.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

36.

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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

38.

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

Mae West

39.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

41.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

42.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

43.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

44.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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