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

1.

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

2.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

3.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

4.

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

5.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

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6.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

7.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

8.

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

West, Mae

9.

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

10.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

11.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

12.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

19.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

20.

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

Ruckett

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

23.

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

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24.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

26.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

27.

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

28.

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.

Landers, Ann

29.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

30.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

32.

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

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33.

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

34.

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

Eucharista Ward

35.

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

36.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

37.

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

38.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

39.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

40.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

41.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

42.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

43.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

44.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Alexander, Shana

47.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

48.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

49.

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

50.

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

Bush, Barbara