Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

- Nelms, Cynthia

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Mae West

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Congreve, William

13.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

14.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

21.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

25.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

28.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

29.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

30.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

31.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

32.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Ford, Richard

36.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

37.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

41.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

42.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

43.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

44.

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

45.

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

Eucharista Ward

46.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

47.

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

Sunday, Billy

48.

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

Wilson, Earl

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert