Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Kinison, Sam

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

11.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

12.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

13.

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

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

15.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

20.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

21.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

22.

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

23.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

25.

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

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

29.

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

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

31.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

32.

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

33.

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

Samuel, Herbert

34.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

36.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

37.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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

40.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

41.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

43.

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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Rita Rudner

46.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

47.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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

Knowles, F. M.

50.

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

Wilder, Thornton