Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Rudner, Rita

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

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

10.

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

11.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

18.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

19.

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

Miller, Harlan

20.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

21.

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

22.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

23.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

24.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

25.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

26.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

29.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

30.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

31.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Mae West

33.

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

34.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

37.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

38.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Kauffman, Max

47.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

48.

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