Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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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.

Landers, Ann

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 a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dave Meurer

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

Halen

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

Miller, Harlan

10.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

11.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

12.

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

Elizabeth I

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

16.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

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

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

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

22.

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

Wycherley, William

23.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

24.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

25.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

26.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

27.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

29.

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

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

32.

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

Mae West

33.

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

34.

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

Diller, Phyllis

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Samuel, Herbert

37.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

38.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

43.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

45.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Thomason, Pauline