Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Rudner, Rita

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

10.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

11.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

14.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

18.

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

Bible

19.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

20.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

21.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

22.

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

Skelton, Red

23.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

24.

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

Winters, Shelley

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

27.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

28.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

29.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

30.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

31.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

33.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

Will Rogers

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

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

Jong, Erica

38.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Vass, Susan

40.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

43.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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