Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

15.

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

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

17.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

18.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

19.

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

20.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

21.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

22.

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

23.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

32.

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

33.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

36.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Moliere

43.

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.

44.

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

Halen

45.

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

Kauffman, Max

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

49.

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

50.

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

Byron, Lord