Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

12.

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

13.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

14.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

15.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

Moliere

18.

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

19.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

21.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

22.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

24.

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.

25.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

28.

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.

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

30.

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

31.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

32.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

33.

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

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

Congreve, William

35.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

37.

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

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

39.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Prior, Matthew

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

45.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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

47.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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.

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De