Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

2.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

3.

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

Vries, Peter De

4.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

5.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

7.

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

Rita Rudner

8.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

23.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

24.

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

25.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

26.

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

Alexander, Shana

27.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

31.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

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

Clarke, W. A.

36.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Spencer, Herbert

38.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

39.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

40.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

42.

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

Will Rogers

43.

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

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Marx, Groucho

46.

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

47.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

48.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

49.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

50.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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