Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Grizzard, Lewis

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Billings, Josh

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Luther, Martin

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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

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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

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

24.

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

Bundy, Peg

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Alexander, Shana

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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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Will Rogers

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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

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Rita Rudner

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

42.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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