Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mcginley, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baum, Vicki

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Scottish

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Eucharista Ward

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

10.

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

11.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

12.

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

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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

14.

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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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

20.

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

21.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Chopin, Daniel

24.

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

26.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

27.

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

Andre Maurois

28.

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

29.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

30.

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

Ford, Richard

31.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Rudner, Rita

33.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

34.

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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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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Mae West

38.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.