Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nick Faldo

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Hesiod

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bush, Barbara

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

18.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Updike, John

24.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

26.

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

Miller, Harlan

27.

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

28.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Helen Rowland

33.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

34.

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.

Ann Landers

35.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

36.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

37.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Dave Meurer

39.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

40.

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

Coward, Noel

41.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

42.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

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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

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

Kathleen Norris

46.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

47.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.