Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Farquhar, George

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

Kinison, Sam

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

10.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

11.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

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

Skelton, Red

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

15.

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

16.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

17.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

18.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

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

22.

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

23.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

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

Updike, John

25.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

26.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

31.

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

32.

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

Vass, Susan

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

38.

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

Peter Blake

39.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

40.

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

41.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

42.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

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

Kathleen Norris

46.

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

Sunday, Billy

47.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

48.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

49.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma