Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Proverb, German

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

Ford, Richard

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Mae West

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Myers, Cecil

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Vass, Susan

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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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

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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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.

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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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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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

William Shakespeare

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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

43.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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