Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Balzac, Honore De

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

10.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

11.

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

Samuel, Herbert

12.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

18.

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

19.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Andre Maurois

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

28.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

29.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

32.

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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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

35.

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lennon, John

38.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

39.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

42.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

44.

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

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

47.

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

Wycherley, William

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.