Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Spencer, Herbert

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Halen

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

10.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

11.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

12.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

13.

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

14.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

15.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

19.

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

20.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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

Smalley, Gary

24.

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

Rieux, Madame De

25.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

26.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

28.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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.

31.

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

Mead, Margaret

32.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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

34.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Wycherley, William

36.

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

Penn, William

37.

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

38.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

46.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

47.

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

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

Prior, Matthew

50.

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

Winters, Shelley