Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

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

12.

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

Halen

13.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

14.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

18.

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

Samuel, Herbert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Helen Rowland

28.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

29.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Balzac, Honore De

33.

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

34.

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

Farquhar, George

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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

36.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

37.

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

Pancoast, Mal

38.

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

West, Mae

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

40.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

41.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

46.

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

47.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

48.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

49.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen