Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

10.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

11.

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

12.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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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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

17.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

18.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

20.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

21.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

22.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

23.

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

24.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

26.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

27.

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

Prior, Matthew

28.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

36.

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

37.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

38.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

39.

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

Chopin, Daniel

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

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

Halen

42.

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

Thomason, Pauline

43.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

44.

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

Ruckett

45.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

49.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

50.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French