Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Elizabeth I

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

Bible

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

10.

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

Pancoast, Mal

11.

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

Rudner, Rita

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Miller, Harlan

14.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

15.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

18.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Halen

22.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

24.

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

25.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

26.

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

27.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

28.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

29.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Mae West

33.

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

34.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

36.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

41.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

42.

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

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

44.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

45.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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