Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

10.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

13.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

15.

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

16.

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

Elizabeth I

17.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

18.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

20.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

24.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

26.

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

Winters, Shelley

27.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

28.

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

29.

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

Kathleen Norris

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Miller, Harlan

34.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

36.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

37.

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

38.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Vass, Susan

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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

48.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

49.

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

Bush, Barbara

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas