Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

10.

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

Bush, Barbara

11.

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

Congreve, William

12.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

17.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

18.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

19.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

22.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

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

24.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

27.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

31.

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

33.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

34.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

37.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

40.

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

Halen

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

44.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques