Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Vries, Peter De

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

10.

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

Thomason, Pauline

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Peter Blake

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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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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

18.

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

Smalley, Gary

19.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

21.

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

Skelton, Red

22.

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

Sunday, Billy

23.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

24.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

25.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

26.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

27.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Jong, Erica

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

31.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

32.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

35.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

38.

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

Bundy, Peg

39.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

40.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

41.

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

42.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Clarke, W. A.