Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

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.

Ann Landers

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

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

Peter Blake

13.

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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

15.

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

Congreve, William

16.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

17.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

18.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

24.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Will Rogers

26.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

27.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

29.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

30.

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

Chopin, Daniel

31.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

32.

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

33.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

34.

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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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

39.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

41.

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

42.

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

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

44.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

45.

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

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

47.

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

Cosby, Bill

48.

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

49.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Grizzard, Lewis