Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Earl

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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.

14.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

15.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Thomason, Pauline

19.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

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

Spencer, Herbert

24.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

25.

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

Coward, Noel

26.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

27.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

30.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

32.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

33.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

34.

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

Mead, Margaret

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

37.

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

Helen Rowland

38.

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

Bennett, Jill

39.

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

Halen

40.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

41.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

42.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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

45.

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

46.

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

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

49.

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

Marx, Groucho

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin