Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

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

Will Rogers

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Billings, Josh

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

10.

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

Bible

11.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Prior, Matthew

15.

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

16.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

17.

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

18.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

19.

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.

20.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

24.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

25.

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

Wilson, Earl

26.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

27.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

28.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

31.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

36.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

37.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

39.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

40.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

41.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

43.

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

Knowles, F. M.

44.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Duncan, Isadora

46.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

Thomason, Pauline

49.

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

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb