Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Farquhar, George

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

13.

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

Allen, Woody

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

17.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

19.

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

20.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Bible

22.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Wycherley, William

27.

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

28.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

29.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

30.

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

Vass, Susan

31.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

32.

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

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

Helen Rowland

34.

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

Rita Rudner

35.

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

36.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.

41.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

42.

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

Kinison, Sam

43.

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

Halen

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

48.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Peter Blake

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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